cubinator Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 Old Space has slow joints, not as speedy as it used to be in the 1960s...can't seem to keep up with the new guy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightside Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 6 hours ago, tater said: Seems like it's part of the job to build the production line to build the Starliner in a timely fashion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikegarrison Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 To some extent, first McDonnell Douglas and then (via the merger) Boeing kind of got taken over by senior managers who were running a manufacturing company but didn't want to be in the business of manufacturing things. A lot of issues have come from this, culminating in the manufacturing disaster of the 787 outsourcing. The company is just not as good at the business of manufacturing as it used to be, due to an extreme desire to outsource everything possible and some things that turned out to be not possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrandedonEarth Posted July 27, 2020 Share Posted July 27, 2020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikegarrison Posted July 27, 2020 Share Posted July 27, 2020 I can tell a lot of SpaceX fans are amateurs. Industry professionals tend to have experienced that what comes around, goes around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codraroll Posted July 27, 2020 Share Posted July 27, 2020 6 hours ago, mikegarrison said: I can tell a lot of SpaceX fans are amateurs. Industry professionals tend to have experienced that what comes around, goes around. Of course. But the fact that they even get amateurs excited shows that the industry at large has a bit to learn from them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrandedonEarth Posted July 27, 2020 Share Posted July 27, 2020 2 hours ago, Codraroll said: Of course. But the fact that they even get amateurs excited shows that the industry at large has a bit to learn from them. Although Tory Bruno has done a great job of raising ULA's profile with his twitter feed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 Would be great if they could redo the OFT this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikegarrison Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 (edited) Boeing announced that a third person has been named to the flight crew of their first operational crewed mission, which is planned for "late next year". (This would come after the uncrewed repeat flight test and the crewed flight test.) https://www.space.com/astronaut-jeanette-epps-joins-starliner-crew.html She was originally scheduled to go up in a Soyuz, but the Russians cancelled her ride without any explanation. Edited August 26, 2020 by mikegarrison Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikegarrison Posted August 29, 2020 Share Posted August 29, 2020 Quote Boeing and NASA are targeting December for the second Orbital Flight Test, or OFT-2, pending hardware readiness, flight software qualification, and launch vehicle and space station manifest priorities. After a successful OFT-2, Boeing and NASA will fly Starliner’s first crewed mission, the Crew Flight Test, in June 2021, with the first post-certification mission, Starliner-1, tentatively scheduled for December 2021. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 (edited) As they were going to replace the NDS-type docking adaptor (derived from IDSS via iLIDS) with the clearance between the petals 800 mm with the Boeing's SIMAC adaptor with clearance 685 mm (and the petals sitting closer), and make it the new standard to replace NDS, which one are they going is put on this Starliner, and what should it dock to? Afair, the ISS adaptors are still NDS ones. (Also why at all this replacement if the external dimensions look same, just the tunnel gets narrower? The last discussions I found are from 2011-2013) Edited September 11, 2020 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCgothic Posted October 3, 2020 Share Posted October 3, 2020 surprise surprise Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikegarrison Posted October 8, 2020 Share Posted October 8, 2020 There has been a change in the crew for the initial crewed flight test. Chris Ferguson will now be the ground-based director of Mission Integration and Operations. Instead of Ferguson, NASA astronaut Barry “Butch” Wilmore will fly as the spacecraft commander. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikegarrison Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 (edited) Scott Manley's take on this crew change announcement (and other CST-100 issues). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjZn9fHQMg0 Edited October 12, 2020 by mikegarrison Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotius Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 I'm more interested in the names of utility programs Boeing installed to protect the crew from bugs, glitches and other consequences of shoddy programming Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codraroll Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 5 minutes ago, Scotius said: I'm more interested in the names of utility programs Boeing installed to protect the crew from bugs, glitches and other consequences of shoddy programming Or the names of the lawyers Boeing hired to protect their executives from the same? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSK Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 5 hours ago, Scotius said: I'm more interested in the names of utility programs Boeing installed to protect the crew from bugs, glitches and other consequences of shoddy programming The Heuristic Algorithmic general purpose monitoring system. Version 9000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotius Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 . .. ... Is any of the Boeing astronauts named Dave, by any chance? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nothalogh Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 On 9/11/2020 at 6:01 AM, kerbiloid said: and what should it dock to? It will autonomously dock directly to the US Treasury Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCgothic Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 Starliner OFT-2 slips to Q1 2021 at earliest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 This was posted ~30 minutes after the Starship test. LOL. Glad no one will notice. Assuming success, 2 years and 27 days after Demo-1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Nerd Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 8 hours ago, tater said: Glad no one will notice. The comment section already went haywire, and I think every launch provider needs some respect, so I don't think this is good. (It's just my opinion so please don't start a debate on Boing vs SpaceX again) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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