NASA considers sending Boeing Starliner astronauts home on SpaceX Dragon — “We’re in a kind of a new situation here.”

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1. * Mirror for the submitted article: https://archive.is/3CaSv

   * “NASA may send Starliner home without its crew — leaving astronauts stuck in space until 2025” “NASA officials are considering returning the troubled Starliner spacecraft to Earth without its astronauts, potentially leaving them aboard the ISS until 2025.” by Ben Turner (August 7, 2024): https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/stranded-starliner-delays-another-mission-to-iss-could-return-without-crew

   – “NASA official acknowledges internal “disagreement” on safety of Starliner return” “We heard from a lot of folks that had concerns.” by Eric Berger (August 7, 2024): https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/nasa-official-acknowledges-internal-disagreement-on-safety-of-starliner-return/

   – “NASA likely to significantly delay the launch of Crew 9 due to Starliner issues” “The primary reason for the delay is rather surprising.” by Eric Berger (August 5, 2024): https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/nasa-likely-to-significantly-delay-the-launch-of-crew-9-due-to-starliner-issues/

    

   * “‘Cockroaches of the factory’: Workers paint a picture of chaos and dysfunction at Boeing” by Chris Isidore and Pete Muntean (August 6, 2024): https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/06/business/boeing-737-max-blowout-ntsb-hearings-day-one/index.html

   * “Boeing’s Starliner proves better at torching cash than reaching orbit” by Richard Speed (August 2, 2024): https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/02/boeing_starliner_losses/

   * https://old.reddit.com/r/economy/comments/1bj6jsh/if_something_requires_us_to_cease_production_we/kvp2kqy/

   * https://old.reddit.com/r/economy/comments/1dtmnw4/the_life_and_untimely_death_of_a_boeing/lbaapez/

    

   * https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8ashen/international_space_station_software_development/dx14w2x/

   * The [International Space Station (ISS) and Earth’s moon](http://chamorrobible.org/images/photos/gpw-20061021-NASA-S135-E-006690-International-Space-Station-blackness-of-space-Moon-20110710-original.jpg) photographed on July 10, 2011 from Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-135): [4256 x 2832 pixels](http://chamorrobible.org/images/photos/gpw-20061021-NASA-S135-E-006690-International-Space-Station-blackness-of-space-Moon-20110710-original.jpg) from http://chamorrobible.org/gpw/gpw-20061021.htm (photo 46) via http://chamorrobible.org or http://chamorrobible.org/gpw/gpw.htm

2. What does this have to do with the economy?

3. The starliner will be deorbited in 2030 with the ISS. It’s free real estate!

4. If it’s Boeing it ain’t going…