NASA Reveals This Boeing Starliner Glitch That Could've Destroyed The Space Capsule

Investor's Business Daily ^ | 02/07/2020 | GILLIAN RICH

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

[The Antiyuppie]

“Software? Did Boeing use $9 per hour Indians to learn to code on this spacecraft?”

Funny that you should ask....

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-28/boeing-s-737-max-software-outsourced-to-9-an-hour-engineers

[Right Wing Assault]

Maybe they switched to the $5 ones that can't speak English.

[minnesota_bound]

It was the Starliner MAX MCAS software.......

[libertylover]

Hard to believe that controlling the thrusters wasn’t tested extensively.

[DuncanWaring]

There was an error in the Space Shuttle control software that was discovered after it had flown at least once that would have, under certain rare conditions, prematurely jettisoned one SRB.

Fortunately, those conditions never occurred.

[Pontiac]

prematurely jettisoned one SRB

It is hard to imagine a shuttle pilot being able to recover from that.

I can think of a number of ways that it would end badly.

[PAR35]

From the folks that brought you the 737 MAX programming.

Boeing cheerleader response - “if they used ‘Murcans instead of untrained 3rd world monkeys to control the flight, everything would be fine.”

[PAR35]

I believe that the acquisition of McDonnel-Douglas and their corporate baggage killed Boeing.

No, it was putting Condit in charge that led to the corporate downfall.

There are more DC-9s in service than there are 737 MAXes.

[semaj]

H1B visas?

[SunkenCiv]

The software designers also made a caucus management app for the DNC...

[PIF]

Software? Did Boeing use $9 per hour Indians to learn to code on this spacecraft?

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That pay was just for the good ones ...

[.44 Special]

Boeing screwed the puppy when it decided to contract out work when its experienced workforce started to retire. There is no accounting for the slop left in newly manufactured aircraft.
As for MDA, have you forgotten the F4, F15, F18 and a host of others including the Apollo? During all the years that MDA had the Payload Ground Operations Contract there was never a launch delay, failure, or payload failure on orbit due to payload processing. The truth is Boeing failed to utilize the experience it gained from its merger with MDA.

[IndyTiger]

Software? Did Boeing use $9 per hour Indians to learn to code on this spacecraft?

That’s exactly my guess.

[DuncanWaring]

The only way to recover from that would be to separate from the external tank.

[Ozark Tom]

H1b temp outsourcing?

[offduty]

Probably.