It also just kind of sucks cause that means your whole lifestyle has to adjust to it. You don't stay healthy in microgravity for extended periods of time unless that's just, like. What you Do for a good deal of your awake time.

Like imagine you've been chosen to climb up a mountain and once you're up the reveal you'll be doing constant drill training instead

The max stay for ISS astronauts is usually 6 months and that's pushing it. 😅

So yeah it's gonna lose a lot of novelty.

Part of the software doesn't exist.

Part of the insulation doesn't exist.

QA looked at the tank and said "you know this has a high likelihood to flood every available crevice with fuel vapors if something goes wrong right?" and management said"lmao nerd you need to get laid".

Cable management is purely hypothetical and has a good likelihood of having one or more cables melt.

The engine cones are not placed in a way that actually makes sense.

The whole bird is a queer mix of carnival attraction, highschool science experiment and supervillain mega project complete with the removal of dissenting voices.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Starliner/comments/1eiggns/comment/lg6e1xy/

Anyway here is an actually scientific explanation from someone with a working brain. Would recommend the whole profile really. They're very much ontop of the whole thing.

Yeeeep. Even people who're usually pretty on the level went full shill mode.

They're on the station thankfully.

Covid affected traffic minimally cause everything has to be so self contained and sterile it just never mattered.

The good news is that the ISS exists well beyond the earthly disagreements between the involved nations. Ever since the Obama administration signed off on the shutdown of the Space Shuttle program American astronauts have been using Putin's air Taxi without incident.

The current SNAFU was an attempt to create something that could take the place of it or SpaceX which is why they hushed it up so hard since it's such a terrible look.

The bad news is the next scheduled pickup is a while out since people rotate in shifts.