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Boeing has informed its employees that NASA may cancel SLS contracts (arstechnica.com)
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I am really sad that those 800 people are feeling the same thing that the govvies are. The folks on the chopping block were not the ones responsible for the problem. In my opinion, plan should be to keep the engineers, lose the suits.

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[–] MunkysUnkEnz0 11 points 2 weeks ago

Smells musky

[–] electricyarn 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Responsible for what problen?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Not being owned by musk

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Over budget and behind schedule? Not uncommon for rockets, but SLS is particularly egregious.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It’s extremely unfortunate for the workers involved, but this is the right call. I’m gonna put this one in the “stopped clock” category. SLS is last-gen tech and murderously expensive. It was a program designed to be unkillable in a traditional political context, but we’re no longer in a traditional political context.