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Boeing Starliner crew's return to Earth from International Space Station delayed yet again (www.cbsnews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How many commercial technical failures and logistical failures is adequate for you?

Maybe more than there were with publicly funded NASA? Starliner was a safe spacecraft that was recalled due to abundance of caution. Which leaders at NASA were far more comfortable doing, since it reflects badly on Boing instead of them.

On the other hand, while NASA was publicly funded, how many astronauts died in disasters?

You are seriously going to pretend one issue is somehow a failure of privatized spaceflight?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Nuance isn't allowed here on lemmy. You will hate capitalism or you will be silenced. You will hate privatization, or you will be ostracized.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I thought that was Reddits thing. Is that just an American thing in general?