this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2024
79 points (100.0% liked)

Spaceflight

677 readers
49 users here now

Your one-stop shop for spaceflight news and discussion.

All serious posts related to spaceflight are welcome! JAXA, ISRO, CNSA, Roscosmos, ULA, RocketLab, Firefly, Relativity, Blue Origin, etc. (Arca and Pythom, if you must).

Other related space communities:

Related meme community:

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] MotoAsh 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Boeing deserves to die as the money grubbing losers they now are.

[–] mipadaitu 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Yes, except that leaves us with one option for sending people into space again.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

And one plane manufacturer.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean "again"? You mean still.

[–] mipadaitu 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

When we had the shuttle. We decided we didn't want to be in that situation again, but we still are.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Thats what i said.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not really, Soyuz still exists. And it's not like Crew Dragon is unreliable or really all that bad.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Until Elon decides to use it as leverage to get something he wants.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I would hope Gwynne Shotwell + the U.S. government would be enough to prevent that from happening...

[–] reddig33 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Would splitting it into three separate companies make any difference? Like maybe at least one of the three would get its act together?

[–] MotoAsh 13 points 3 months ago

No not at all. It is not a macro problem of organization. It's a micro problem of rich executive fuckwits running the corpo instead of actual engineers.

You can dice it up how ever you want, but if vapid, money-grubbing piles of trash are at the top, it will ALWAYS fail.