The entire Starliner program has been quite the clusterf*ck these past few years. In retrospect, it’s kind of incredible that SpaceX was viewed as the risky startup in Boeing was viewed as the reliable option. This was true back in 2014, of course, but the tables have certainly turned since then.
Nevertheless, I’m always excited for the debut of a new crewed launch vehicle!
Starliner is there to extract that sweet wage slave nectar… SpaceX had a point to make.
Company ran by boomers bean counters is in business of looting, space business is just a means to do the looting.
SpaceX will be the same within a generation. None of these innovation clowns actually believe in it any innovation. It is always about market share and then rent seeking once share is secured.
Even if SpaceX goes south, they’re at least an inflection point that seriously changed the industry.
You can say “fuck” on the Internet.
Pretty good article. And it does make a lot of sense, too. I may not work in the supply chain and logistics, but I know enough guys who do to confirm that if you don’t have a good company-level relationship with all the other companies in your supply chain, then you are setting yourself up for HUGE production issues. And that issue has got to be ten times worse when you’re not just buying copies of an existing component, but trying to design a completely new one that will need to be repeatedly iterated and tested.
Couple that up with asking your management team to learn something as fundamental yet technically demanding and experience-based as DEALING WITH LIMITED MONEY (how the fuck did this happen. How did you get used to Blank Cheques of all things), and you’ve got a recipe for disaster even before we get into the upper management corruption.
