Thread regarding Boeing Co. layoffs

Unbelievable! Even after all this time Boeing still hasn't even decided if they will redesign their corrosion prone valves...so even if this latest non-crewed test is successful, Boeing will need to do another non-crewed test:

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/12/boeing-considers-redesigning-crucial-valve-for-starliner-space-capsule.html

SpaceX would have redesigned and flight tested it in less than two weeks.

Boeing's best rocket engineers left to help SpaceX. Clueless, ignorant Boeing leadership who only care about lining their pockets quickly.

(IMHO) ☞ Crooked Moгons | not crooks or moгons
Boeing’s engineering prowess is gone, purged from the ranks
No capacity for innovation - 3 monkeys with a football.

Exactly. Only crooks or mo--ns would fund and continue this obsolete and expensive approach for space these days. Vote these crooks and mo--ns out of office if you are still able to vote in your State.

Who cares. It is yet another example of a Boeing obsolete design fielded very late and much over budget.

How to handle and store {dinitrogen tetroxide}
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD0404805.pdf
From May of 1963
They knew better, but the financial engineers override the rocket scientists,
Every time and at every turn here at Boeing.
More of the same, More Boeing Buffoonery.

Non-reusable space vehicles are way too expensive and they should be a non-starter given the super low cost and high safety paradigm created by SpaceX. Starliner and SLS are a complete waste of tax payer money.

Parts falling off the new Starliner, it sound like a Chrysler product, what a POS !

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/05/this-time-can-boeings-starliner-finally-shine/

Boeing and NASA say the Starliner spacecraft is ready for a do-over flight,
with a second un-crewed test mission of the spacecraft now scheduled for May 19

Nine months have passed since a standard pre-flight check of the spacecraft,
then sitting atop a rocket on a launch pad in Florida,
found that 13 of 24 oxidizer valves within Starliner's propulsion system were stuck.
The discovery was made within hours of liftoff.

Since then, engineers and technicians at Boeing and NASA have worked to
fully understand why the valves were stuck and to fix the problem.
They found that the dinitrogen tetroxide oxidizer that had been loaded onto
the spacecraft 46 days prior to launch had combined with ambient humidity
to create nitric acid, which had started the process of corrosion inside the
Valve's Aluminum Housing.
Not titanium, Not stainless steel but Aluminum. Do you smell an MBA?

“Will Starliner Finally Shine_?”
The Starliner is already a shining example of Boeing’s Systemic Incompetency.
I’ll bet the MBA’s saved thousands of dollars by using (Scotch Tape) in place
Of fasteners to affix the windows protective covering _ _ _

https://futurism.com/the-byte/piece-falls-off-boeing-starliner
Doing no favors for the spacecraft’s reputation for jankiness, it ran into yet
another mishap along the way.
While strapped to the back of a large truck, a piece of the capsule’s window
appeared to pop off and tumbling down to the asphalt, as spotted in footage
shared by CBS space news reporter William Harwood.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/piece-falls-off-boeing-starliner
May 4, 2022

Piece Falls Off Boeing Starliner as It Trundles Toward Launch-pad
Oops!
That probably wasn't supposed to happen.

After years of setbacks, Boeing is finally rolling out its Starliner spacecraft
to the launch-pad today for its now third second attempt to rendezvous with
the International Space Station. The second attempt was a failed launch.

More on Starliner:
Boeing Says Oops, Its Multibillion Dollar Spacecraft Can’t Handle Humidity
https://futurism.com/the-byte/boeing-starliner-valve-humidity
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