I’ll leave this Screenshot of an exchange I had a few weeks ago. A couple of replies were giving a soft defense of Boeing:
Particularly embarrassing considering the incredible progress SpaceX is making, including today’s launch and successful splashdown of both starship and the booster. The entry was wild, too - one of the fins burned halfway off, but the damn thing still worked fine lol
Maybe they’ll put a Starliner in the cargo bay of the next Starship launch.
Who would expect something like that…
At some point, really hoping the US government just disqualifies Boeing as a potential supplier. I was ready to celebrate that Boeing finally managed to not fuck something up, but alas, my hopes were somehow too high. Good luck to the astronauts on re-entry.
You gotta be fuckin kidding me. How could they launch this thing?
“Well, some of them are built so that the front doesn’t fall off at all.” 🤣
Because Boeing has evidently become a “safety third” sort of company over the last several decades
Probably because they were contractually obligated. Nasa and Boeing entered into their agreement in 2019 when SpaceX was making headlines for reusable rockets and the Starship announcement. Boeing had FOMO they might miss out on government money so they made their own rockets with blackjack and hookers. Sadly, now Boeing is working hard to keep up while also trying to not kill more people with their “flying” machines.
I’m sitting down, waiting for Scott Manley’s analysis video to drop. I’d hope there are valid and sane reasons why they thought it should go ahead, but something like this was so obviously going to happen.
Interesting watch from a recent Smarter Every Day video on this very topic. https://youtu.be/OoJsPvmFixU?feature=shared
