NASA confirmed that Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft has suffered a fifth, although minor, helium leak in its propulsion system.
  • Gerudo@lemm.eeEnglish
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    5 months ago

    The only option they had were to send another shuttle up and transfer to it. There was nothing in place to repair the heat shielding, even if they had known the amount of damage.

    The shuttle transfer would have been something never attempted or even planned for.