boy, those voice transmissions back to base informing of these leaks would be worth listening to.
I mean, to be fair, I’d like to know more about the volume lost here.
For example people often struggle to imagine that the sun is losing 4.7 million tons every second. Or that ships constantly take on water they have to pump out. This is part of normal operation, and while the helium leaks here clearly are not, if built with a degree of redundancy in mind, certain loss rates are entirely acceptable.
Or not.
Depends on the volume involved. 😅
Boeing and redundancy are like oil and water
To be fair, regarding redundancy:
The astronauts only need seven hours of “free-flight time” to perform the end-of-mission maneuvers and Starliner currently has enough helium for 70 hours of free-flight time, Boeing said.
Man I love nasa!
