After several failed attempts, the Boeing “Starliner” finally got off the ground. The astronaut’s 1 week mission at the ISS, has now extended into 5 weeks. They are now expecting to be stuck in the station through the end of July, because the Boeing Starliner is not fit to fly.
So…when are they going to send a Dragon up to pick up the crew, and jettison the Boeing piece of poo?
The Lockheed Starliner was the last of the piston airliners.
Within a few years it was eclipsed by longer range Boeing 707s & a few years after that the longer range DC 8s.
I remember Pops took my brother & I to the airport to view the take off & landings of passenger aircraft in 1960. Good times!
DB2
Why not name it “Minnow”? We know how that “three hour tour” turned out.
Have Musk retrieve the crew.
I’m sure Boeing will insist “we can fix it, with another five years of work and five Billion of government money.”
Steve