From what I see the thrusters are faulty.
Boeing said the cause is a Teflon seal bulging, they cannot identify why and when it is bulging but they say it will not happen on the way down.
Also, all the previous flights of Starliner had thruster malfunctions or shutdowns and they "fixed it" without knowing the root cause of the issue.
It seems like there is disagreement within NASA whether it is safe for the astronauts to return on Starliner or not.
Boeing engineers did test on the ground to try to replicate the issue that is occuring on the thrusters. They found thqt the issue isndue to a Teflon seals bulging but they don't understand precisely why is the seal buldging and when it occurs.
However they feel confident enough that the problem would not happen on the way back to earth. Some people are NASA are not as confident as they are and would like to know the precise cause of the bulging.
About the software: there is a capability in the software for the capsule to undock autonomously.
However it would means resurrecting parameters that have not been used and updated since 2022, there is some reconfiguration needed and testing to make sure it still does what is needed despite the different hardware and software change that happened since then.
It is really not looking good for Boeing right now and I don't know if the Starliner program will survive this accident.
Not anymore, it was designed for 7 people in 2 seat rows using propulsive landing.
During development they switched to parachute instead of propulsive landing, since parachute can be rougher they had to lean the seat more back for the astronauts to be able to handle more G's.
In this lean back position there is not enough space for a second row of seats anymore
Being low probably helped a lot
Applied to a real situation I've been through :
The answer to one is 1.5 bag, the answer to the other one is "fuck that, I'm getting 8 bags at the store and it should be good enough"
I love my steel bike, it's great on the road, on gravel or for a quick grocery shop.
I'm not gonna win any competition with it but it is honestly such a fun bike.
And with care it should last forever.
The fact that NASA has been considering the option to use the Dragon capsule to bring them back shows that there is some concerns.
It's so slick and clean looking ! It looks like the concept version of the engine.
There is footprints of homo erectus from 1.5 millions years ago showing that they were walking like we do.
Because one is stimulating the economy and the other one is just more money in the pocket of the billionaires.
Yes, it's better for safety and health reason.
Plus 30km/h is in the speed range of bikes, so it become much more accessible to bike around in the city and more people start to do it.
What !?
Until now I never considered that it would be made illegal to hang your clothes.
This is distopia material.