It’s now been more than a month since Boeing publicly acknowledged that they knew that their Starliner spaceship had a helium leak when it was sitting on the launch pad, but they went ahead and sent it up anyway. While the results weren’t as disastrous as they might have been in a worst-case scenario, they were bad enough. One leak soon turned into four and then some of the booster rockets failed when they initially attempted to dock with the International Space Station. Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been stuck on the ISS for more than fifty days now. In their latest press release on the subject, Boeing still sounds like they are trying to paint a sunny picture of the situation, but they admit that they won’t be able to attempt to bring them back on Starliner until at least next month. (CNBC)
Boeing’s crew spacecraft Starliner will stay docked with the…
