NASA Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test LIVE Countdown form Launchpad | LIVE

You Tube ^ | May 6, 2024 | NASA

[bigbob]

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.

[Campion]

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]

[MtnClimber]

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?

[Freee-dame]

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

[Hebrews 11:6]

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.

[linMcHlp]

Good movie, Executive Suite.

[dfwgator]

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

[Hebrews 11:6]

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

[markman46]

watching on the nasaspaceflight.com youtube channel RN

[markman46]

Nutz a scrub

[hoagy62]

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.

[Rio]

May 10.

[SunkenCiv]

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

[hoagy62]

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