Posted on 06/26/2024 11:44:40 AM PDT by Red Badger
“Two NASA scientists”? What happened to all the astronauts NASA was training?
Dragon will be free to rescue them when its current schedule is used up some time in the next year or two.
SpaceX just launched a GOES today I think? Going to look into when they will be getting a Dragon ready to send up.
The Russian just lost a key tracking station and are no longer able to help.
Better: Musk buys all Boeing assets and parts them out.
This ^^^ !
When Apollo 13 blew up, the lunar module team at Grumman sent the Apollo CSM team at North American Rockwell an itemized bill for "towing charges". (I think the total charge was something like $13 million.) I hope Elon sends a similar bill to Boeing if the astronauts have to return on SpaceX.
You sound unfamiliar with how quickly corporations work. What was yesterday’s “strategic growth platform” can become “non-essential to our core business” in 3 months. Which, not coincidentally, is one quarter which is the interval upon which top executive bonuses are calculated.
Starliner’s fate depends on what happens with the stock price, not however much was sunk into its development. Too many examples to count...
If they decide to abandon the Starliner, they may sell what tech they have in it to Musk, to attempt to regain a little of their lost investment.
Free market capitalism works because of the "right to fail". Corporations with the mind set you mention, are more likely to fail in the long term. Examples abound. Examples also abound of government declaring corporations "too big to fail", which also short circuits the right to fail.
better buy their tickets now
If it’s Boeing, I ain’t going.
you may be a poet
and not even know it
Elon should send w capsules up. One for rescue attempt the other full of pizza and hookers.
That was kind of the plot of a 1969 film called Marooned , great cast in that.
Gene Hackman, James Franciscus, Richard Crenna, and Gregory Peck.
Elon shoulda launched the rescue in the middle of the night and should be standing off ISS 10000 kilometers right now.
DEI=DIE
“Maybe you are a poet and don’t know it? ;-):
Maybe you are a poet
and don’t know it
“Free market capitalism works because of the “right to fail””
If enough catastrophic failures become headline-grabbing fatalities the “right to fail” becomes the “right to go to jail”.
Agree, sounds like they contracted out QA and never reviewed/approved the QAP or QASP. Lazy way to do business.
So, all kidding aside, I assume there would be no docking compatibility issues between the two spacecraft?
Or could they just spacewalk over?
Sorry for my ignorance.
Boeing is unionized. Does SpaceX have a union?
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