A new report finds Boeing’s rockets are built with an unqualified work force
A new report finds Boeing’s rockets are built with an unqualified work force
NASA declines to penalize Boeing for the deficiencies.
Oh, jesus.
I work aerospace (non Boeing company), which is basically space technology for babies. The least competent guys in our building have done three year training courses specifically tailored to assembling planes. There are people on our shop floor who can explain the entire build inside out from start to finish who are just considered above average competency.
Space technology, where everything somehow costs even more than aerospace and requires precision the likes of which could make your eyes bleed. I shouldn't be surprised Boeing would skimp out on things at this point, and yet... I am. It's literally unthinkable to me that you would take a job which needs more technical skill than aerospace assembly, and leave THAT to an untrained workforce.
Any 'savings' you might get by laying off the people who were qualified and rightfully asked for higher pay for their skills would quite frankly be burned through by one single mistake from a cheap untrained worker. I handle parts worth more than triple my yearly pay every single day in Aerospace. Even if you have very good insurance for your rocket parts, a few completely innocent mistakes by your workers is going to totally fuck up your finances.
Even if you have very good insurance for your rocket parts, a few completely innocent mistakes by your workers is going to totally fuck up your finances.
That doesn't even include being $1.6 Billion over budget on a project that is extremely public, with a competitor that received half the government funding you did, and completed their project years ago with over a dozen successful flights already? A project that may have just stranded its first two pilots in space on its first manned flight?
No way!
cuts school funding further
Eric Berger wrote this
Not just Eric Berger: https://spacenews.com/nasa-watchdog-finds-quality-control-problems-with-boeing-sls-work/