It looks increasingly unlikely that the astronauts stranded at the International Space Station will return on the Boeing Starliner spacecraft, and you won’t believe one of the reasons why that is the case.
NASA likely to significantly delay the launch of Crew 9 due to Starliner issues. https://t.co/ZhjNSOTd4Y
— @amuse (@amuse) August 5, 2024
Ars Technica has been doing a bang-up job covering the disaster NASA misnamed “Starliner,” and they just dropped a couple of new bombshells. One that shouldn’t surprise that much: NASA is going to delay SpaceX’s launch to the ISS because there isn’t an open dock compatible with it.
The other reason, though, is truly shocking: the current software build for the spacecraft prevents it from undocking safely from the ISS.
You read that right: Starliner, as it stands right now, can’t undock from the ISS.
NASA has quietly been studying the…
