Posted on 07/11/2026 8:01:00 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
In this week's Avid Space industry update, Blue Origin continues the cleanup effort at LC-36, NASA's Office of the Inspector General releases a scathing report on NASA's handling of the Starliner contract with Boeing, and Northrop Grumman's last Pegasus XL rocket is launched to on a mission to rescue the Swift Space Observatory.
Starliner Delays Costly - NASA Watchdog Demands Accountability
Weekly Spaceflight News | 9:04
Avid Space | 29,051 views | July 8, 2026
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NASA needs to just quit throwing good money after bad.
I think NASA’s all done with Boeing. The joint owners of ULA were rumored to want to sell ULA, and only wanted a couple billion I think, shows how little the assets are worth.
“Mr Elon Musk, please pick up the white phone in the lobby. Now please.
What I really do not understand is the width a breath of Boeing engineers getting it so wrong, so very wrong. Those dudes and dudets are brilliant. How could they screw it up so bad? They sent a piece of shit up into space with humans on board. Space X brought them home.
I repeat those Boeing engineers are brilliant. Why did they not say NO NO NO? It reminds me of the Space Shuttle disaster. The Mortin Thikol engineer was saying do not launch do to temperature. He knew as it was his boosters that had temperature limitations to seal the boosters. He was right and NASA was wrong thus the avoidable tragedy.
They died. Oddly aware they were dying.
Boeing can’t finish the new AF1s on time/budget.
Boeing apparently can’t engineer a reliable space capsule.
“If it’s Boeing, it ain’t going”
I know NASA wants multiple contractors, at this point largely for political reasons but dang....they need more contractors of the new get-it-done school - SpaceX and I still include Blue Origin. Boeing is old school - bloated space contracts, years long schedule overruns and eventually maybe you get it, maybe you don’t.
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