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Livestream links for manned Starliner launch. 10:34p.m. EDT
Posted by: archipirata
Date: May 06, 2024 10:54AM
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Re: Livestream links for manned Starliner launch. 10:34p.m. EDT
Posted by: Carnos Jax
Date: May 06, 2024 10:55AM
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Re: Livestream links for manned Starliner launch. 10:34p.m. EDT
Posted by: Ombligo
Date: May 06, 2024 01:02PM
Starliner has only received a successful test once. I wish the crew the best of luck, but they are braver than me, and I used to cave dive.


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Re: Livestream links for manned Starliner launch. 10:34p.m. EDT
Posted by: d4
Date: May 06, 2024 01:37PM
I never get tired of manned space launches. Thanks for posting!


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Re: Livestream links for manned Starliner launch. 10:34p.m. EDT
Posted by: ztirffritz
Date: May 06, 2024 03:15PM
Given the history of this craft and the project in general, these folks have massive titanium cojones. You couldn't pay me enough to ride in that thing. The rocket is reliable, but that capsule would scare the crap out of me.


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Re: Livestream links for manned Starliner launch. 10:34p.m. EDT
Posted by: davemchine
Date: May 06, 2024 03:27PM
I would fly on SpaceX any day but not on Starliner. Inadequate testing and the testing they HAVE done seems to indicate it is unsafe.


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Re: Livestream links for manned Starliner launch. 10:34p.m. EDT
Posted by: gabester
Date: May 06, 2024 03:31PM
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ztirffritz
Given the history of this craft and the project in general, these folks have massive titanium cojones. You couldn't pay me enough to ride in that thing. The rocket is reliable, but that capsule would scare the crap out of me.

I wonder if they're taking their own separate oxygen supplies and possibly even a couple MMUs for payload on the Starliner... just in case.

Edit: NVM, it looks like the MMU was retired in favor of SAFER which is emergency only - totally apropos given the Starliner's already spotty record.


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Re: Livestream links for manned Starliner launch. 10:34p.m. EDT
Posted by: Ombligo
Date: May 06, 2024 04:27PM
It was built by Boeing, so at least we know the hatch can be blown off.


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"Those who cannot accept the past are condemned to revise it." -- Geo. Mathias

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Re: Livestream links for manned Starliner launch. 10:34p.m. EDT
Posted by: Speedy
Date: May 06, 2024 04:59PM
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Ombligo
It was built by Boeing, so at least we know the hatch can be blown off.

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Re: Livestream links for manned Starliner launch. 10:34p.m. EDT
Posted by: jonny
Date: May 06, 2024 05:56PM
Crew about to load
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Re: Livestream links for manned Starliner launch. 10:34p.m. EDT
Posted by: chopper
Date: May 06, 2024 06:31PM
It would be 100% fantastic if the MST3K crew would riff this ...
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Re: Livestream links for manned Starliner launch. 10:34p.m. EDT
Posted by: chopper
Date: May 06, 2024 06:37PM
Can't get the ... damn ... notebook .... to lay FLAT ....
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Re: Livestream links for manned Starliner launch. 10:34p.m. EDT
Posted by: chopper
Date: May 06, 2024 07:21PM
What a drag. Scrubbed.
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Re: Livestream links for manned Starliner launch. 10:34p.m. EDT
Posted by: Speedy
Date: May 06, 2024 07:30PM
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What a drag. Scrubbed.

Yep, the crew demanded to be let out.


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Re: Livestream links for manned Starliner launch. 10:34p.m. EDT
Posted by: Carnos Jax
Date: May 06, 2024 07:44PM
‘demand’ is such a strong word, was there some sort of impending issue?
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Re: Livestream links for manned Starliner launch. 10:34p.m. EDT
Posted by: jonny
Date: May 06, 2024 08:05PM
"But trouble with a valve in the rocket's upper stage forced mission managers to order a scrub just two hours before takeoff."

Today's astronauts! They'll scrub at the drop of a helmet!
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Re: Livestream links for manned Starliner launch. 10:34p.m. EDT
Posted by: gabester
Date: May 06, 2024 08:55PM
If they're having more valve problems with Starliner, that's not a good sign for the vehicle.

I was surprised when they had the issues for the second test launch because they hadn't anticipated the corrosiveness of the sea salted air at Cape Canaveral (and it begs the question why do we do rocket launches there and not Arizona?


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Re: Livestream links for manned Starliner launch. 10:34p.m. EDT
Posted by: GGD
Date: May 06, 2024 11:37PM
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"But trouble with a valve in the rocket's upper stage forced mission managers to order a scrub just two hours before takeoff."

Today's astronauts! They'll scrub at the drop of a helmet!

If it's the upper stage, this sounds like an Atlas V problem rather than a Starliner poblem.
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Re: Livestream links for manned Starliner launch. 10:34p.m. EDT
Posted by: PeterW
Date: May 07, 2024 10:18AM
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I was surprised when they had the issues for the second test launch because they hadn't anticipated the corrosiveness of the sea salted air at Cape Canaveral (and it begs the question why do we do rocket launches there and not Arizona?

Because if something goes badly wrong, you’re dropping rocket parts into the ocean instead of on Phoenix or Tucson.
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