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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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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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defrost ◴[20 Oct 24 04:00 UTC] No.41892758[source]▶
One is a qualified engineer with a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Aeronautical Engineering and demonstrated hands on ability designing and building complex new designs, the other manages Engineers with a "Physics for Business Majors" unit and a Homer Simpson approach to practicality.

Hats off to the Engineers Engineers that Engineered the chopsticks catch, there were quite a few getting into the technical weeds:

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F2...

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