Two Starliner items in Ars
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I saw two stories on Ars Technica about the Boeing Starliner crew capsule:
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One interesting item was that NASA management didn't try to use a spy satellite to see if the shuttle Columbia's heat shield had been damaged by the foam strike at launch because there was no way to rescue the crew if they did find evidence of damage - that is a really scary: "see no evil" attitude.
Personally I'd say try bringing back the astronauts home later on a Spacex capsule. Try bringing Starliner home robotically without any crew as was done with the first Starliner mission to the ISS. We know Starliner has problems, why take a risk ?
Ironically I think that even having Starliner at all is due to that NASA reality with Columbia that they weren't able to rescue the crew - having the two US capsules as well as the Russian capsule gives you more rescue ability.
Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm
