00:00There are space programs that fail spectacularly. Explosions, debris, live broadcasts etched into
00:08memory. And there are programs that fail quietly. Starliner belongs to the second category.
00:15That's precisely why we need to talk about it now. Because while SpaceX lands rockets,
00:23tests Starship and Dragon routinely, takes astronauts to the ISS, there is a spacecraft
00:30out there that is officially considered operational. Yet one that neither NASA nor its
00:37own astronauts really trust. Starliner. And what has become apparent in recent months regarding
00:44Butch Wilmore and Sonny Williams shows very clearly that the problem was never just the technology.
00:50The problem was a system that simply doesn't work that way anymore.
