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Boeing says its space mission is 'going well' as astronauts stranded
(www.businessinsider.com)
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And that’s basically it!
They scrubbed, investigated, found it was acceptable, launched, and discovered previously unknown issues. The original leak isn't getting worse, they discovered more, smaller leaks, that still don't pose a danger to the mission.
Discovering the cause of the 5 RCS thrusters shutting down with only 4 of them being able to restart is the current focus of things, because the spacecraft is no where near running out of helium.
It's all still within the scope of this test flight's objectives, so they technically aren't wrong to say things are going well even when they've found issues.