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NASA freezes Starliner missions

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269 points rntn | 1 comments | 17 Oct 24 19:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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tootie ◴[19 Oct 24 14:37 UTC] No.41888007[source]▶
Honestly this feels like an indictment of privatizing space travel. SpaceX is a perfect storm of a benefactor with unbelievable wealth being able to hoard the best engineers money can buy. And now the advancements they've made are proprietary. Ideally Boeing and SpaceX could just collaborate and not have fight each other and waste a load of time and money. If the point is an open, competitive field driving space exploration forward, it seems we don't have that.
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1. wrsh07 ◴[19 Oct 24 15:24 UTC] No.41888334[source]▶
This is an absolutely ridiculous take. Look at Arianespace: https://videopress.com/embed/DYF1wrn8?hd=1&cover=1&loop=0&au...

Is there any world where any western government created reusable rockets by 2025 without space x? No chance.

And should we talk about the enormous dysfunction of NASA? https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2024/10/02/sls-is-still-a...

This isn't because their best engineers get hired by space x, it's because the system is set up to fail and there's absolutely no accountability.

Are there some well-functioning organizations? Sure. Would they have been able to accomplish anything remotely close in cost, speed, or safety of space x? No.