After another Boeing letdown, NASA isn’t ready to buy more Starliner missions
After another Boeing letdown, NASA isn’t ready to buy more Starliner missions
Boeing could earn nearly $2 billion more from NASA if it fully executes on the Starliner contract.
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Boeing deserves to die as the money grubbing losers they now are.
24 0 ReplyYes, except that leaves us with one option for sending people into space again.
7 0 ReplyAnd one plane manufacturer.
6 0 ReplyWhat do you mean "again"? You mean still.
6 0 ReplyWhen we had the shuttle. We decided we didn't want to be in that situation again, but we still are.
7 0 ReplyThats what i said.
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Not really, Soyuz still exists. And it's not like Crew Dragon is unreliable or really all that bad.
3 0 ReplyUntil Elon decides to use it as leverage to get something he wants.
10 0 ReplyI would hope Gwynne Shotwell + the U.S. government would be enough to prevent that from happening...
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Would splitting it into three separate companies make any difference? Like maybe at least one of the three would get its act together?
3 0 ReplyNo not at all. It is not a macro problem of organization. It's a micro problem of rich executive fuckwits running the corpo instead of actual engineers.
You can dice it up how ever you want, but if vapid, money-grubbing piles of trash are at the top, it will ALWAYS fail.
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