Stranded or not? What's the status of astronauts on Boeing's Starliner?

Thanks Ellie, this is the top-notch, factual and even-handed journalism that we've all come to expect of you.

Better 'Stuckliner' than 'Flatliner'!

I think Starliner will bring them home. I certainly hope they are safe. If anything happens on the way back, Boeing is done.

nowadays Boeing is SO LUCKY to be a government supported/subsidized company, as a private one would be bankrupted by now.

I would NOT want to come home in that thing, it has way too many issues, and they never should have gone up in it.

What's really scandalous is that Starliner was allowed to fly at all, with two astronauts on board. It's not ready.

At least the door didn't fall off.

I reckon the space station will be retired before star liner demonstrates a clean round trip which i think is needed before certification

Windows and or doors exploding off the ship while being towed before launch, is not a major concern at this time.

+ about 6 hrs since Ellie's post: I hope you are following the NASA JSC ISS presser - reporters are pressing hard about the lack of daily info as well as the vague testing. And NASA is clearly annoyed about words like "stranded." Yet they will NOT commit to an end of testing and a return to earth for Suni and Butch.

They have been up there so long that NASA are considering charging them rent.

I can see the astronauts thinking about the issues, with one of them saying: "I knew we should have upgraded to business class".

Oh and BTW, great reporting Ellie.

That was a good analysis Ellie. I think I’ve mentioned something about this before but as a sidenote, in your ending bumper appeal for subscribers and even Patreon so that you can live the life you want to live, think of your viewers. They are struggling to live the kind of lives *they* want to live. I would strongly recommend rephrasing that to say “so that I can take you to these places “or “we got to go see and do the things that you want to do, and get answers to the questions that you are asking” A good manager will take the blame themselves but always praise the people on their team first. In the same way you want to emphasize in this form of journalism that you are acting as the hands and feet and eyes and ears of your viewers, and you disappear into the background.

I hope Butch remembered his shaver, hes going to look like a caveman after being stuck up there for so long

Remember that time a Dragon capsule was stuck and couldn't safely leave and a second capsule had to be sent? Me neither.

I think Boeing's best days are over, you can see it in aviation too. Thank God for SpaceX.

0:30 Boeing also is known for having problems keeping their doors closed.

If you had a SpaceX engineers look at Boeing's design they are likely to conclude Boeing's design is overly complicated. A Boeing engineer told me if you were to look at all the paperwork that went into building one of their planes the amount of paperwork would fill that plane. What this leads to is no one person knows how it all works.

If it's Boeing, I ain't Going.