r/SpaceXLounge • u/CurtisLeow • 6d ago

News Starliner’s flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/04/the-harrowing-story-of-what-flying-starliner-was-like-when-its-thrusters-failed/

Suni and Butch talked about docking Starliner with the ISS, and about why they returned in Crew Dragon.

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u/mehelponow ❄️ Chilling 5d ago

Incredible article, Butch and Suni do a great job of verbalizing what it must've been like inside the capsule as the thrusters continued to fail. Being at zero-fault tolerance, forced into hands-off control during a system reboot, while drifting away from the space station is going into the pantheon of steely-eyed astronautics. Makes the Dragon V1 COTS Demo LIDAR issues look tame in comparison.