| Okay... This AM Boeing launches their version of the commercial manned spacecraft to ISS. The computers go insane and start maneuvering like ISS is right there when it is far away and use up most of their fuel while ignoring frantic messages from Earth to quit. That's cool... BUT THEN... NASA in it's infinite bureaucratic wisdom decides to halt SpaceX's pending manned flight too and buy lots more seats on Soyuz! Seriously! WTF is wrong with NASA? |
A Mission Event Timer issue resulted in Starliner burning a significantly larger amount of propellant than planned and forced Boeing and NASA to abort the planned rendezvous and docking with the International Space Station and opt instead for a landing at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, No Earlier Than Sunday morning (22 December) roughly 48 hours after launch.