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They're having "conversations."
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The unholy mess that is Agile Development/Extreme Programming has a nasty habit of fouling things up by the numbers and then some, though.There's no way that would be faster to design and adequately test than adjusting and testing the old unmanned software and pushing that back up to the capsule.
Summon the beamjacks!Perhaps that´s the source of the problem: too much conversation...
Last but not least, this incident should raise the issue that the on-going massification of Space, even at an early age, can not be done safely sending up there only Scientists, pilots or tourist. It´s past time we have fixers, welders and other individuals with an appropriate industrial background on orbit.
Those would have certainly helped here.
Repeating myself, similarly, the first thing that should land on the Moon that time with Artemis... Is a CAT.
PowerPoint takes time...They're having "conversations."
@edwest4 : pardon me if I missed something but how is this is related to Starliner?
Bad decisions were made, but you will step down at the end of the year and walk away with millions of dollars.
So basically a squatter on the ISS.from the Daily Hopper on X
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NASA to make decision on Starliner astronauts by end of month
Washington DC (UPI) Aug 14, 2024 - NASA plans to make a final decision by the end of this month on how the space agency will bring two Boeing Starliner astronauts, who have been stranded on the International Space Station since June, back to Earth.www.spacewar.com
$125 million dollar hit for Boeing due to Starliner? That is a lot of money for Boeing to lose. Ouch!!
They are going to give Boeing every chance to pull it's own balls from the fire before they are going to give SpaceX the opportunity to rub their nose in it.By the end of the month?![]()
They are going to give Boeing every chance to pull it's own balls from the fire before they are going to give SpaceX the opportunity to rub their nose in it.
There is also the consideration that the decisions they are making now aren't just about retrieving the two astronauts, but could affect the entire program in Congress. I suspect they'd prefer to have the Starliner option, even if it is still (despite the years and money) clearly not ready for primetime.
I think the only sane decision right now is to deorbit autonomously and send them back on Dragon. There are a lot of reasons to avoid that if possible if you are a government entity who depends on Congress for its program money. They are a political entity being put in a position to shoot one of its own two horses. It will not be an easy decision for the bureaucrats, and each of them will want their own butts covered and own say heard.
Returning HQ to within spanner-throw of the Seattle 'Works' might work...
You need to have some people who are focused on profit; engineers are great, but without profit (even a small one) a company won’t run for long.
Yes, that's true but the current Boeing management has an unhealthy obsession with profit.
The managers having an engineering background model worked well for Boeing until the merger with MDC.You need to have some people who are focused on profit; engineers are great, but without profit (even a small one) a company won’t run for long. Hobby shops that run at a loss and then close benefit no one. The part that’s a problem is the shortsightedness, not the profit.
The managers having an engineering background model worked well for Boeing until the merger with MDC.
That’s why you have to hit them where they hurt the most. Millions of dollars in severance package for disgraced CEO to quit… what a sick joke.
The managers having an engineering background model worked well for Boeing until the merger with MDC.
Boeing was the host—MacDoug the tapeworm
Even by the time I joined Boeing in August 1998, the saying in a former Rockwell campus in SoCal was that McDonnell Douglas bought Boeing with Boeing's own money. I've heard this saying repeated countless times over the past few decades, and each time it made a little more sense to me.That's the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation's influence, I do not understand why McD senior managers were allowed to take over Boeing as it was them who ruined Boeing.
Once you''ve reached a certain paygrade, the only way to fall is up.That's why these golden parachute packages need to end and there should be severe financial penalties for senior managers who screw things up.
That one specifically because Google acted as a monopolist.Google may be broken up since it achieved a monopoly in search.
Because it adds more complexity and risk and doesn't add anything positive.Interestingly, the way ISS receive its orbital crew might now be questioned. Instead of docking directly to the core modules, why not having a "docking pad" remotely positioned away from the main station at the end of a beam. Then a rail mounted airlock (inflatable?) is driven to the docking ship, cargo and astronauts are transferred before the moving airlock is brought back to the core ISS module.
- Mechanically sizing the docking beam would mean that no exaggerated stress are transferred to the ISS.
- Length of the docking beam would provide an ample volume for a safe and simple arrival trajectory
- The absence of gravity would make that beam lighter enough to be ferried as an add-on payload
-The number of crew and cargo modules docked at a single time would be greatly expanded
Etc...
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