Starliner Poster-Mortem

a while back I did a video on Starliner I made two major points the first is that Starliner delays are partly the fault of Boeing and partly beyond their control the second was that the commercial crew contract was deliberately structured to give Boeing a big incentive to finish development and start flying flights and that there are at least two billion reasons why they have kept the program going for so long before we get into the current state of Starliner and what the future of Starliner might look like I have some information I need to share my finances are tight I can barely afford the Coke Zero and pork rinds that keep me going much less the fresh cheronis that I prefer recent responses have been less than I have hoped for so I propose a simple agreement I'll promise to keep making videos and you promise to keep doing your part I think that's a win for and if you choose not to I'm not responsible for what might happen lift off from Cape Canaveral Air Station of the Air Force Delta 2 lunch vehicle carrying the new GPS 2R satellite we have had an anomaly we just had an anomaly of the Delta 2 launch vehicle from Kate Canaveral Air Station we need to secure the area once again we had liftoff of Delta 2 launch vehicle from Kate Canaveral air station and we just had a problem with the vehicle on thank you for your attention to that important announcement we now return you to your original video already in progress this past summer we finally saw a crew climb into a Starliner capsule on top of an 5 launch into orbit and dock with the International Space Station that was great what wasn't great is that Boeing has clearly not fixed the issues that they had run into on earlier Starliner flights with helium leaks and Thruster failures those problems put Starliner in the dogghouse and the problem was with a section of the service module known as the dogghouse there are four doghouses spaced evenly around the service module and they are jam-packed with what is technically known as Thruster stuff why is this such a problem it's due to a choice made by the Starliner designers to better understand that it's useful to compare the two commercial crew capsules both have an upper capsule part and a lower non- capsule part the SpaceX non- capsule part is named the trunk and by analogy with a car it's a place that you can carry extra stuff that you can't put in the passenger passenger compartment for cargo Dragon flights it can tolerate the vacuum of space such as these roll out solar cell arrays