Maybe you can see Boeing's latest fiasco
By
Will Collette
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There's a new feature attached to the ISS: Boeing's new Starliner space module that has been stranded for weeks because of leaking helium and bad thrusters. Boeing says everything is fine but it's not.
At least it's not a 737. Boeing is now officially a corporate criminal having pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges of failing to disclose information about the 737 crashes that killed 346 people around the world.
No Boeing exec is doing jail time for these crimes and the $244 million fine, though large, is just the cost of doing business.
In my opinion, no taxpayer money should be spent on deals with corporate criminals. If the federal government was serious about stopping corporate crime they could, at minimum, suspend and debar Boeing from government contracts for some appropriate length of time. They could revoke its corporate charter or seize the property involved in the criminal act.
That's what I would do, for what it's worth. But meanwhile, at 8:50 PM, the ISS with its Boeing appendage will transit Charlestown skies starting at 10 degrees over the northwest horizon, heading up to almost overhead at 83 degrees and finally disappearing 12 degrees over the east southeast horizon.
Tonight, the National Weather Service predicts tonight’s weather will be mostly clear.
6-7 minutes is the maximum time for an overflight. The station relies on reflected light
from sunset (or sunrise) to make it visible to us on the ground and 6-7 minutes
is roughly how long it takes for the ISS to go from one end of the sky to the
other.
Here's the message I received from NASA this morning, courtesy of
their "Spot The Station" e-mail listserve:
Time: Sat Jul 27 8:50 PM, Visible: 6 min, Max Height: 83°, Appears: 10° above NW, Disappears: 12° above ESE