It's ogre, Boeing got fucked
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They ripped that design straight from Star Trek, the entire suit, and i am so happy...Incidentally, the USSF has been busy. They've got their own uniforms and rank insignia now. This is the current Chief Master Sergeant of the Air force
Discerning eyes will note the extreme deviation of from the normal Air Force Master Sergeant Chevrons. Also, the right sided buttons. This is military autism 101, but when a service does this and its approved, that service is on the upswing. NASA is in major fucking trouble here, and the desperation to save the Boeing Program may be less about Boeing and more about saving NASA's shit. Especially as we enter an era in which combat in earth Orbit is becoming not just likely, but potentially necessary.
The Space force has since conception been doing independent operations in Earth Orbit and has frozen NASA out of most of its projects. If NASA Bungles the Civilian side of things spectacularly, they are fucked, because there is no retreat position for them. The USSF already has the Military and Government side of things on lock and if NASA shows it can't deliver even the rudimentary level of support for critical national security operations the USSF is going to demand authority to have its OWN cargo haulers and sub orbital launchers. And contracts with SpaceX and Boeing.
Starliner is fucked man. They are canning that shitbox. No way another one goes up.
It's highly likely that it will. What they can do next is send up another unmanned flight, but with cargo in it. This is a way to give Boeing another couple hundred million$, save face, and keep their side of the Commercial Crew program alive and kicking. I wouldn't rule out future manned flights either.
They know the jokes won't ever stop, so they might as well lean into it. NGL, its a really fucking cool dress uniform. Really dig the Deep Space Black color too. Snazzy. I bet getting those Buttons to perfectly align is a tremendous pain in the ass though. A big benefit to having the buttons there though is that the cut of the suit doesn't get in the way of the Fruit Salad.
As someone who's intro to Star Trek was the old movies and TOS, I am glad they went the extra mile. And just looking at how they conduct themselves compared to NASA... yeah, diversity and such isn't on the menu nearly as much. Boeing is though with the X-37 program. This thing, the mini drone shuttle:
They've sent a couple people up on SpaceX rockets. A key point to note in searching about it is the Space Force doesn't call their orbital personele "Astronauts". They call them "Guardians".
so when do they put a weapons platform in space?
My biggest issue with the Space Force is the lame ass names they are coming up with.
Soon, maybe within a week. I thought I read September 2nd somewhere. They want it to land safely just as if it had astronauts in it. If the thruster issues prevent them from even doing that, then they may decide to burn it.
I haven't heard of Space Force personnel going anywhere in space. Here's the full list of Crew Dragon missions:
When do we get ODSTs?
Boeing Sisters, we can't lose to the Musk Bros! Not like this!
Boeing sucks so bad, I will put money they somehow miss earth.
The X-37 predates most of Boeing's current woes and the program is run by their defense and space branch. Then agian, BDS has their own issues with the KC-46 and it's refueling system. They had to redesign the boom twice and now the fuel tanks leak.
Li-Ion batteries are not allowed as air freight, but the FAA gave Boeing permission to use one for the system battery. It ended exactly how anyone with a brain thought it would
Starliner is currently in Earth's gravitational well, so for them to "miss" Earth, they'd have to be uncontestably stupid.
Well orbit is a bit of a newtonian continuous miss, but yea exceeding escape velocity and forever hurtling away from earth would be interesting. If it exploded whilst still fully in orbit then fragments of it doing so wouldn't necessarily be unusual.
