S8 Ep487: Preview for later today. Bob Zimmerman of Behind the Black details a serious NASA investigation revealing that terrifying thruster failures on Boeing's Starliner capsule placed the entire astronaut crew in life-threatening critical danger.
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🗓️ 20 February 2026
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Preview for later today. Bob Zimmerman of Behind the Black details a serious NASA investigation revealing that terrifying thruster failures on Boeing's Starliner capsule placed the entire astronaut crew in life-threatening critical danger.
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchel. |
| 0:01.7 | A colleague Bob Zimmerman reports on Starliner, Boeing's spacecraft designed about the same time that |
| 0:08.8 | SpaceX designed its craft. |
| 0:12.1 | SpaceX has been flying for years. |
| 0:14.5 | Boeing is in trouble. |
| 0:15.6 | Starliner's in trouble. |
| 0:16.7 | And Bob explains why. |
| 0:18.5 | Life-threatening trouble. |
| 0:21.0 | Much more of this tonight and in days coming forward. |
| 0:24.7 | Boeing disappointing. |
| 0:27.4 | Here's Bob. |
| 0:28.9 | Okay, so Starliner was, is Boeing's manned capsule that was supposed to provide a redundant |
| 0:35.6 | capability to get crew to ISS and back. |
| 0:39.5 | SpaceX had a contract. |
| 0:41.2 | Boeing had a contract. |
| 0:42.6 | SpaceX filled its contract. |
| 0:44.3 | Has been delivering astronauts to ISS on a regular basis now for what? |
| 0:49.6 | Six years, seven years, something like that. |
| 0:53.5 | Boeing has had endless problems with Starliner. |
| 0:57.3 | So back in two years ago, they did their first manned mission to ISS. |
| 1:04.3 | When the capsule was approaching the station to dock, it got close, and then suddenly none of the thrusters would work. |
| 1:13.6 | Now, at the time NASA made light of the situation, we learned subsequently from one of the |
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