Saw someone show yesterday that despite them (Boeing and SpaceX) both receiving roughly 5 billion usd now, not only has SpaceX delivered, but has already nearly doubled the launches of them (i think it was like 6 launches vs 12 as of now) meaning a better return on investment for us.
It seems SpaceX is the new undisputed king, the best Boeing can hope for now is that they can retain some of there dignity and have the spacecraft not blow up on re-entry.
As Scott Manley pointed out, NASA is can demand more from commercial contracts than from internally managed programmes. If the Starliner had been an internal programme, they would have sent the astronauts back on the Starliner.
Yeah, no shit NASA should be looking elsewhere. Boeing has had recent scandals involving their lack of quality control, had major crashes, major issues with fucking windows blowing out of the planes and now they’ve had a malfunction that has stranded astronauts in space. They should be put out of business not sitting around scratching their heads over why NASA wouldn’t trust them to send another ship into orbit. Seems pretty self-explanatory.
If it’s Boeing, then you shouldn’t be going. Do you want to die?
The US DOJ and FBI failing upwards again. The CEO and all the executives should be arrested and charged, but hey this is America.
**CRIME AND CORRUPTION**
*Just American Things*
Legacy Space companies like Boeing actually have competition to be concerned about now, their endless bloat and dragging their feet and still getting paid doesn’t work anymore.
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Saw someone show yesterday that despite them (Boeing and SpaceX) both receiving roughly 5 billion usd now, not only has SpaceX delivered, but has already nearly doubled the launches of them (i think it was like 6 launches vs 12 as of now) meaning a better return on investment for us.
It seems SpaceX is the new undisputed king, the best Boeing can hope for now is that they can retain some of there dignity and have the spacecraft not blow up on re-entry.
As Scott Manley pointed out, NASA is can demand more from commercial contracts than from internally managed programmes. If the Starliner had been an internal programme, they would have sent the astronauts back on the Starliner.
Yeah, no shit NASA should be looking elsewhere. Boeing has had recent scandals involving their lack of quality control, had major crashes, major issues with fucking windows blowing out of the planes and now they’ve had a malfunction that has stranded astronauts in space. They should be put out of business not sitting around scratching their heads over why NASA wouldn’t trust them to send another ship into orbit. Seems pretty self-explanatory.
If it’s Boeing, then you shouldn’t be going. Do you want to die?
The US DOJ and FBI failing upwards again. The CEO and all the executives should be arrested and charged, but hey this is America.
**CRIME AND CORRUPTION**
*Just American Things*
Legacy Space companies like Boeing actually have competition to be concerned about now, their endless bloat and dragging their feet and still getting paid doesn’t work anymore.