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0 pointsceejayoz6y ago0 comments

> You can't always simulate every possible failure mode. Things fail on the ground that wouldn't be possible during normal operation and vice versa.

This should be concerning, then:

https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/11/04/boeing-starliner-pad-a...

> “Boeing is not going to do an in-flight abort test,” said Jon Cowart, deputy manager of the mission management office for NASA’s commercial crew program, before the pad abort test. “They’re just going to do the ground one. They think that they can get enough data and then extrapolate that out, with good analytical techniques that we’ve endorsed. They will go and do it in that particular way, versus SpaceX, which is going to do both.

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ClumsyPilot6y ago

You'd think that after two air plane disasters, they'd tread carefully

xvf226y ago

> Finally, before the meeting ended, the chair of the safety panel, Patricia Sanders, noted yet another ongoing evaluation of Boeing. "Given the potential for systemic issues at Boeing, I would also note that NASA has decided to proceed with an organizational safety assessment with Boeing as they previously conducted with SpaceX," she said.

This is a welcome development.

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