Originally Posted by
remi
You underestimate the capability of oppo, which would be all over this if anything went wrong, translating "association" into "management responsibility." This has already been in the press, with no particular traction.
But anyway, we should be all good now, regardless. Even if Starliner is unable to upgrade its software, or unable to undock, or goes haywire and becomes orbiting junk, or burns up on reentry, that's just another bad day for Boeing, not NASA.
If the American public in general, and the electorate in particular, are so vapid and clueless as would be necessary to fall for the level of oppo claims that you describe, there is no hope.
Honestly Suni and Butch on-orbit deserve better discourse, even if only on some backwater irrelevant inter-zone of the internet, as we have here.