How many commercial technical failures and logistic failures is adequate for you? They are in this position because NASA (A public space agency) determined that Starliner -(a private craft) wasn't safe to use as a return vehicle

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Why hasn't NASA just sent a NASA vehicle to receive them?

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

I bet they would had the Obama administration not moved to privatize spaceflight -Did you miss the part I said about privatized space flight in an earlier comment?

[–] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

How many commercial technical failures and logistical failures is adequate for you?

Maybe fewer or equal than there were with government run NASA? Starliner turned out to be a safe spacecraft that was recalled due to abundance of caution. Which leaders at NASA were far more comfortable doing, since it reflects badly on Boing instead of them (which is a good thing).

On the other hand, while NASA run the launches itself, how many astronauts died in disasters?

You are seriously going to pretend one issue is somehow a failure of privatized spaceflight? A nonfatal issue that caused two astronauts to chill on the space station for longer than expected, most of it voluntarily?

[–] Halosheep@lemm.ee 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Nuance isn't allowed here on lemmy. You will hate capitalism or you will be silenced. You will hate privatization, or you will be ostracized.

[–] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

I thought that was Reddits thing. Is that just an American thing in general?