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NASA Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test LIVE Countdown form Launchpad | LIVE
You Tube ^ | May 6, 2024 | NASA

Posted on 05/06/2024 9:52:58 AM PDT by Red Badger

VIDEO AT LINK.....................


TOPICS: Astronomy; History; Military/Veterans; Travel
KEYWORDS: boeing; forsale; nasa; starliner; ulaisforsale
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To: rellic

Jack Welch’s protege Jim McNerney did his share of damage too, changing Boeing from a company focused on quality to one of financial bullshit. Just as his peers did in ruining 3M, Home Depot, and GE.


21 posted on 05/06/2024 10:43:19 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: Jan_Sobieski
They didn't though. And all of the hardware exists in museums and could be reverse-engineered if we wanted to. Most of the blueprints exist, too, but aren't very useful inputs to a modern, computerized, manufacturing process. The tooling and other purpose-built manufacturing equipment does not, however.

There are even extra F-1 (Saturn V first stage) engines sitting in a warehouse. A team reverse-engineered one of them -- their story is on the Internet, read it yourself -- and designed an upgraded F-1 that would have been much cheaper to manufacture, using modern methods, than the original F-1 was, at only a small cost in thrust/efficiency. It was proposed as the booster engine for the SLS.

NASA rejected it in favor of the "killed seven people on Challenger" solid-fuel booster rockets. [shrug]

22 posted on 05/06/2024 11:16:10 AM PDT by Campion (Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - Little Flower)
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To: Red Badger

I would not trust the DEI quality control standards. Who cares if a trans-muslim-black-woman hammered in a bolt instead of using a wrench?


23 posted on 05/06/2024 11:18:45 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: hoagy62

The SpaceX launch went off as planned. What a beautiful sight, visible from many parts of Florida.


24 posted on 05/06/2024 12:33:16 PM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: bigbob
from a company focused on quality to one of financial bullshit

The 1954 movie Executive Suite nicely explores that very tension, with William Holden personifying quality and Fredric March finance. With Walter Pidgeon, June Allyson, Barbara Stanwyck, Nina Foch, Shelly Winters, Dean Jagger, Paul Douglas and Louis Calhern.

25 posted on 05/06/2024 12:49:51 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 ("The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed." Romans 8:19)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

Good movie, Executive Suite.


26 posted on 05/06/2024 12:51:15 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: bigbob

That’s what happens when you replace engineers with bean counters.


27 posted on 05/06/2024 12:51:20 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: linMcHlp

I thought the actors were uniformly superb, especially March. I could even tolerate Stanwyck.


28 posted on 05/06/2024 1:32:07 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 ("The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed." Romans 8:19)
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To: Red Badger

watching on the nasaspaceflight.com youtube channel RN


29 posted on 05/06/2024 3:45:19 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: markman46

Nutz a scrub


30 posted on 05/06/2024 5:49:48 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: Red Badger

NASA has announced that they’re standing down for tonight. According to them, it is due to a oxygen valve on the Centaur second stage of the Atlas 5 rocket. No Word on When they are planning on another attempt.


31 posted on 05/06/2024 5:50:43 PM PDT by hoagy62 (Evil won...again.)
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May 10.


32 posted on 05/07/2024 8:26:49 AM PDT by Rio
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To: Red Badger

ULA is rumored to be up for sale, btw.

NASA Canceled Boeing Starliner Launch, Why? Musk’s reaction...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvUdAs3RdwA


33 posted on 05/07/2024 11:12:09 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Rio

Actually, ULA announced today that the launch will be no earlier than Friday, May 17.


34 posted on 05/07/2024 8:36:20 PM PDT by hoagy62 (Evil won...again.)
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