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Boeing's Starliner spacecraft detects leaks on journey to ISS (www.voanews.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Since the cause of the first leak was a defective rubber seal, it would have made sense to replace all of them. I'm pretty sure they didn't use different types of seals on each thruster port. But for that, they would have had to disassemble the spacecraft and that would have taken too long for the available launch windows.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's a good thing rubber seals have never caused any problems in spaceflight

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is that a Challenger?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

It was a bang.