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Boeing comes clean on parachute borkage as the ISS crew is set to shrink

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"Of course, redundancies in the system meant the capsule descended safely on just two parachutes and had there been a crew onboard, the 'nauts would have been fine. The test, trumpeted Boeing, actually validated that redundancy and highlighted "the robust and redundant safety features" of Starliner."

We design redundancy into our systems knowing the QA team have done slap-dash work and something is definitely going to go pear shaped.

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