Comments by "" (@A86) on "Scott Manley" channel.

WTF do SJWs or "diversity" have to do with engineering troubles? That was an enormous reach to shoehorn a right-wing political message into engineering. I'm surprised you didn't dislocate your shoulder.
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@jtjames79 Thankfully the thruster issue seems to be because a pressure drop scared the sensors set to very conservative parameters since this is a test mission, rather than a valve issue. Although they'll never get the thrusters back, they can probably figure out what happened more or less from the telemetry.
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No, Crew Dragon Demo-1 also had docking issues but was allowed yo dock anyway. It wasn't an issue of political favoritism. In 2013 NASA allowed the maiden Cargo Dragon to dock with the ISS in despite hours earlier having a complete thruster failure more serious than Starliner's was.
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Crew Dragon Demo-1 wasn't flawless. It had some issues during docking. Even Crew Dragon Demo-2 had a couple of hiccups. Bob and Doug reported that the second stage flight was uncomfortably bumpy because of the Merlin Vacuum engine, and they had a kind of rough reentry due to fairly high G-loads. Dragon in 2019 wasn't the well-oiled machine that it is now. Starliner is now roughly around where Dragon was in 2018 or 2019.
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@atanasapostolov2731 As a Star Wars, Star Trek, and Dragon Ball fan, I feel your pain. I know what it's like to be a fan of something with some of the most toxic fandoms in the universe outside of cults and religious followings. It's a damn shame because I'm also a fan of SpaceX vehicles, rockets and tech as a general space superfan. I always liked Starliner but the last few days has made me love it like I love Dragon, Dream Chaser, Orion and Starship. It's kinda painful watching the toxic SpaceX fanboys and fangirls twist themselves into pretzels ro argue "Um, akshually, this isn't a success. Starliner just had an EPIC FAIL that almost killed everyone and could have blown up the space station! ZOMG cancel Starliner now!!!11". Some even stoop to conspiracy theories when you point out that NASA is pleased with Starliner right now and accuse NASA of just rubber-stamping it and willfully endangering lives because of political favoritism with Boeing. All because NASA won't agree with their hate-driven summary that Starliner's minor glitches this mission were some enormous life-threatening catastrophe. Although some of the people doing this aren't toxic SpaceX fans but rather anti-Boeing people driven by a hate boner for Boeing that clouds their ability to be rational or stop displacing their hate for the company's executives onto Starliner.
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Cargo Dragon had a much more serious thruster failure in 2013 while traveling to the ISS. Thruster glitches are extremely common on new series of spacecraft. Anyone who was expecting absolutely nothing to go wrong with a new spacecraft had unrealistic expectations.
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Probably not particularly difficult. That's literally what we always did before the Shuttle. The Shuttle was the first time we got all the thrusters back. They'll have to glean causes from the telemetry.
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@limiv5272 Probably not going to have any serious glitches. They already dealt with a serious situation near reentry with Boe-OFT-1. They probably have reentry nailed just like they've gotten the clock issue fixed.
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This is fixed-price, not cost-plus. Also, these are new thrusters developed by Aerojet Rocketdyne in the past 10 years. These thrusters are not the ones from Mercury or Gemini. They're significantly more advanced.
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