Did they not do multiple thermal simulations or actual hardware tests on every part of the ship? That's nuts if they didn't, or even if they did but botched the simulation, that's going to be a nightmare to fix.
The Starliner program has been notorious for relying heavily on computer simulations, instead of doing the "hardware-rich" testing that SpaceX is famous for and which was also the norm in the 1960s NASA culture.
Did they not do multiple thermal simulations or actual hardware tests on every part of the ship? That's nuts if they didn't, or even if they did but botched the simulation, that's going to be a nightmare to fix.
The Starliner program has been notorious for relying heavily on computer simulations, instead of doing the "hardware-rich" testing that SpaceX is famous for and which was also the norm in the 1960s NASA culture.
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Yeah, it was the Saturn V "pogoing" problem. It really is amazing that spaceflight is even possible given the engineering challenges.