I know this is not the decision we had hoped for, but we stand ready to carry out the actions necessary to support NASA’s decision. The focus remains first and foremost on ensuring the safety of the crew and spacecraft,
He expressed to me an intention that they will continue to work the problems once Starliner is back safely and that we will have our redundancy and our crewed access to the space station,
I think it’s really important for him to go in and have an assessment of this,
That’s not a good outcome for NASA either. They’d have to start over with commercial crew,
For Boeing, the losses are significant and would call into question the viability of a business like this if you look at it in a long-term way,
If Boeing can fix its commercial airplanes business, what happens in space is a lot less relevant,
Do they ultimately exit the program because it’s too complicated,” ... Boeing can’t recover its investment, “and because the other guy can do it better?”
We believed that Starliner could bring them home safely, but Nasa didn’t want to chance it,
We have had so many embarrassments lately, we’re under a microscope. This just made it, like, 100 times worse,
At some future point, SpaceX will need help, and Boeing will be able to return the favor,
It’s really only after maybe you get five missions under your belt that you know how everything is going to behave in space,
We hate SpaceX. We talk s–t about them all the time, and now they’re bailing us out."
They have their own PR issues and don’t want two dead astronauts,
We are executing the mission as determined by NASA, and we are preparing the spacecraft for a safe and successful uncrewed return.”
We have had mistakes in the past,
A couple years ago, we made the decision — knowing that this was a test flight — to make sure that we had the right resources, supplies and training for the crew, just in case they needed to be on ISS, for whatever reason, for a longer period of time,
We need to bring those folks home and get back to a normal crew size on the ISS,
No one has had to go on a diet or calorie restriction,
While they’re up there, we have extra crew, we have extra hands, and they can do a lot more work. But they’re also using up more consumables, more supplies,
Butch and Suni are fully trained,