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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: 0s | 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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lupusreal ◴[19 Oct 24 21:17 UTC] No.41890843[source]▶
Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin before SpaceX started, and he was certainly a hell lot richer than Elon Musk at that time and many years longer. The narrative of SpaceX owing their success to Elon Musk being rich doesn't align with the facts.
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senderista ◴[20 Oct 24 00:47 UTC] No.41892001[source]▶
He also deliberately kept their budget small and headcount low, on the theory that "constraints breed innovation". Read The Everything Store for details.
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1. dboreham ◴[20 Oct 24 03:19 UTC] No.41892616[source]▶
Good to see that proved wrong with a controlled experiment.