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#22477046 at 2025-01-31 18:22:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27478: Fryday Not Forgotten Bits Edition

Boeing names Space Station exec as new head of Starliner program
January 30, 20253:23 PM PST

The vice president leading Boeing's (BA.N), opens new tab Starliner spacecraft unit, Mark Nappi, has left his role in the program and been replaced by the company's International Space Station program manager, John Mulholland, a Boeing spokesperson told Reuters on Thursday.
Nappi, who led Boeing's Starliner program from 2022 through major engineering issues and testing mishaps, is currently in a new role "focused on identifying opportunities for streamlining improvement across the division's space programs until he retires next month," the company said.

Mulholland previously led Boeing's Starliner program from 2011 before switching in 2020 to the company's International Space Station program, which works closely with NASA under a multibillion-dollar station operations contract.
Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, in development under a $4.5 billion NASA contract to ferry astronauts to the ISS, has faced an array of engineering challenges since 2019.
In its first test mission last summer flying astronauts, Starliner was forced by NASA to leave its crew aboard the ISS and return empty in September over problems with its propulsion system.

A panel of senior NASA officials in August had voted to have a Crew Dragon capsule from Elon Musk's SpaceX bring them back instead, deeming Starliner too risky for the astronauts.
Paul Hill, a veteran NASA flight director and member of the agency's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel, said during a quarterly panel meeting on Thursday that NASA and Boeing continue to investigate Starliner's propulsion system.

A Boeing spokesperson said on Thursday that the company and NASA have not yet determined what Starliner's next mission will look like, such as whether it will need to repeat its crewed flight test before receiving NASA certification for routine flights.
NASA's decision in August to have Starliner come back empty and leave its astronauts on the ISS for months longer than planned was a bruising moment for Boeing's space unit, as SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule dominates the private spaceflight business.

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/boeing-replaces-chief-its-starliner-spacecraft-unit-2025-01-30/
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/SY/SY16/20150227/103096/HHRG-114-SY16-Bio-MulhollandJ-20150227.pdf

#22476621 at 2025-01-31 17:06:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27477: Dubs of TGIF Edition

Safety panel reports progress in Starliner investigation
January 30, 2025

Boeing and NASA are making "significant progress" on addressing issues seen on a test flight of the company's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft last year, an independent NASA safety panel says, although key problems with the spacecraft's thrusters remain unresolved.
Paul Hill, a member of the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP), said at a Jan. 30 public meeting that the committee was briefed on the status of the investigation into Starliner's Crew Flight Test (CFT) mission recently.
That mission launched in June with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams on board, but the spacecraft returned to Earth three months later uncrewed because of agency concerns about the performance of spacecraft thrusters.

"NASA reported that significant progress is being made regarding Starliner CFT's post-flight activities," he said. "Integrated NASA-Boeing teams have begun closing out flight observations and in-flight anomalies."
He didn't elaborate on the specific issues that the teams had closed out but stated that it did not include the thrusters, several of which shut down during the spacecraft's approach to the station.
The propulsion system also suffered several helium leaks.

"The program anticipates the propulsive system anomalies will remain open," he said, "pending ongoing test campaigns."
He added there are teams studying the root cause of the thruster problems, developing recommendations for changes to future missions and assessing "technical and organizational factors" that may have played a role.

Hill said ASAP was satisfied with the progress and course of action by Boeing and NASA.
"The details shared by NASA gave us confidence that they are focusing on the right core issues and the related path to safely flying Starliner."
While the ASAP meeting did not provide many technical details about the Starliner investigation, it was perhaps the most detailed public update into the investigation since Starliner's return nearly five months ago.
Neither NASA nor Boeing have provided much information about the investigation since the landing.

The ASAP briefing did not discuss when Starliner might fly again, and whether it would be another test flight with or without crew on board or as a long-duration crew-rotation mission.
"The timing and configuration of Starliner's next flight will be determined once a better understanding of Boeing's path to system certification is established," NASA stated in October.
"NASA is keeping options on the table for how best to achieve system certification, including windows of opportunity for a potential Starliner flight in 2025," the agency stated then, but has not offered an update since then on where Starliner might fit into the station manifest.

Boeing announced Jan. 23 that it expected to take another charge against earnings in the fourth quarter of 2024 because of Starliner that could be in hundreds of millions of dollars.
The company didn't give more details during a Jan. 28 earnings release and analyst call, and hasn't yet submitted its 10-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that would include that information.

Mark Nappi, the Boeing vice president who was Starliner program manager during the CFT mission, is no longer in that position.
Nappi appeared on a panel Jan. 30 at the SpaceCom conference here in the role of senior program advisor for space exploration initiatives at Boeing, noting the change was part of longstanding plans by him to retire from the company in February.

The panel, on public private partnerships, only briefly touched on Starliner.
Asked what he would have changed about the structure of the commercial crew program to improve the spacecraft's cost and schedule performance, he pointed to requirements.
"I think we would go back and revisit those requirements and make them more efficient."

https://spacenews.com/safety-panel-reports-progress-in-starliner-investigation/

#15347695 at 2022-01-11 03:50:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #19413: It's beginning to look a lot like Genocide… Edition

Gerry Conlon served 15 years for an IRA Bombing he was never involved with. His friends and family were smeared in a rabid overreaching attempt to Quell the Irish rebellion against British Crown's Tyranny, under the auspices of the Moniker of "Terrorism". (The same Queen who the MSM likes to portray as a sweet little old Grandmother)

Gerry's Father died in Prison, with Gerry as his cellmate, while endlessly struggling to garner an appeal to prove their innocence. The police deliberately covered up the entire debacle, even after arresting the actual IRA Bomber, who vehemently asked them to release these innocent people.

As a retired 23+ year Federal Law Enforcement Officer serving in the Military, I always fought for the Truth, no matter who was suspected of any crime. From petty violations to international terrorists. Justice is Blind. Lose sight of the Ultimate Judge and You will lose your soul. We are all God's Children and We shall Love Each Other,In The Name of The Father!Forgiveness is the Hardest Act for the Human Heart, Yet is the Highest Wisdom of the Unity & Survival of Humanity. Otherwise it becomes an endless vortex of guilt, vendettas, violence, & so on. Live by the Sword, Die by the Sword.

Of note, after their ultimate vindication and release. They continued to fight for Truth! Gerry's friend Paul Hill ended up marrying Robert Kennedy's daughter, Courtney Kennedy.

Please, In God's Name… FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT FOR THE TRUTH! IT WILL SET US ALL FREE!!!