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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: 0.249s | source
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dgrin91 ◴[19 Oct 24 14:40 UTC] No.41888020[source]▶
I wonder if Boeing will cancel starliner since they already lost 1B+ and won't have a chance to earn on it for a while
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Vecr ◴[19 Oct 24 15:10 UTC] No.41888246[source]▶
If they don't fix it, what will their reputation be like? In isolation giving up is probably the correct thing to do, if it wasn't so extremely public.
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solardev ◴[19 Oct 24 15:15 UTC] No.41888278[source]▶
Does Boeing still have any reputation left worth saving? Seems like they gotta start from scratch regardless.
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panick21_ ◴[19 Oct 24 16:34 UTC] No.41888812[source]▶
If they drop this program they basically fuck over NASA. And Boeing is still the prime contractor on SLS. Meaning that NASA could very well finally stop playing nice over SLS.

And if Boeing wants to ever recover a chance on major NASA contracts, they can't let NASA down on this. Unless the want to just leave the space business.

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JumpCrisscross ◴[19 Oct 24 19:01 UTC] No.41889840[source]▶
> Boeing is still the prime contractor on SLS. Meaning that NASA could very well finally stop playing nice over SLS

NASA has been trying to cancel SLS for a decade. It’s nicknamed the Senate Launch System for a reason.

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1. panick21_ ◴[20 Oct 24 04:37 UTC] No.41892892[source]▶
That's not really true. Can you show me the evidence for that?

The reality is that large parts of NASA are extremely supportive of SLS. We know from reporting that this is true. It was NASA Johnson engineers who pushed the design. No NASA Administrator has ever dared to even question the SLS or publicly speak in criticism at best the have lightly pushed for solutions around SLS.