BOEING vs NASA

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Apollo 13 budget: ~ $2.8B in 2023 usd

Boeing 737 MAX total program budget (excluding older 737 models): > $180B
- Why are you comparing the budget of one single spacecraft with an entire production run of a model of airplane? That's not a reasonable comparison.
  
  Because Boeing should have economy of scale benefits by selling $180B worth of aircraft, while Apollo 13 was a bespoke, single-use, cutting-edge spacecraft on a much smaller budget.
  
  Yeah its too fair to boing because they are not sending shit tp fucking space
- https://youtu.be/URoVKPVDKPU?si=6wAXf8ckCXTPb_UY
  
  Wendover's video on Boeing - it's easy to see how costs spiral under their model, plus it's nice to see Sam - probably one of the biggest aviation geeks around - put the boot into Boeing.
  
  A good waste of 20+ mins.
  
  put the boot into Boeing
  
  Sounds risky, might break a foot, he should've used a brick instead.
- That explains how Boeing could afford 22 characters while NASA had to make do with 3.
What's the "No!" Button do?
- I believe it was a stage separation, so the No! was to keep them from accidently pressing it early.
  
  Hmmm... I wonder if this technique would help me in KSP if I put a big "NO!" over the spacebar 🤔
- Don't ask, don't tell.
Of note is that if this is the command module, it was built by Rockwell, parts of which eventually become Boeing. So the stickies track.
Love the printed labels on the Apollo capsule.

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