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NASA freezes Starliner missions

(gizmodo.com)
269 points rntn | 6 comments | 17 Oct 24 19:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.323s | source | bottom
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WalterBright ◴[20 Oct 24 03:44 UTC] No.41892704[source]▶
It's too bad that Elon Musk and Kelly Johnson never met. Both are engineers' engineers doing impossible things, and I bet they would have had a blast.
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1. dmead ◴[20 Oct 24 04:13 UTC] No.41892811[source]▶
I'm really surprised people still think he's doing the work and not just a salesman.
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2. WalterBright ◴[20 Oct 24 04:21 UTC] No.41892836[source]▶
Why was NASA/Boeing/Bezos/Branson/Russia/etc unable to do it?

BTW, Musk took enormous personal risk on these ventures, betting his whole fortune on it.

3. blackhawkC17 ◴[20 Oct 24 04:48 UTC] No.41892932[source]▶
I wish we had many more “salesmen” like him in other industries.
4. steveoscaro ◴[20 Oct 24 05:21 UTC] No.41893069[source]▶
Read a biography instead of just NYT headlines.
5. Dalewyn ◴[20 Oct 24 05:52 UTC] No.41893190[source]▶
I will ecstatically lick the boots of a guy who's taking us where no man has gone before like it's the 1960s and 70s again.

Catching Starship 5 like they did was something straight out of anime, and I still can't entirely believe that was real. Please give us more of that, Musk.

Don't even get me started with Starlink redefining satellite internet, Tesla lighting a bonfire under every car manufacturer's arse, or Mysterious Twitter X becoming actually good if not necessarily profitable. Jeez.

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6. dmead ◴[20 Oct 24 20:08 UTC] No.41898130{3}[source]▶
Gross.