🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Yeah Right,
as if after a catastrophic failure of contractual obligations in everything
related to space, Boeing would ever allowed to touch another spacecraft again.
It keeps getting worse.
https://futurism.com/starliner-failure-embarrassment-boeing
Over the weekend, NASA finally announced its decision:
Boeing's Starliner is too dangerous for human flight.
Instead, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams who flew up
on the clown capsule, will get a ride on board a real spacecraft
SpaceX's Crew Dragon in February.
It's extremely fortunate for the two astronauts that there is a company
with integrity and a solid foundation in engineering providing a safe way
home for Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.
Boeing’s clownish and sophomoric attempts at building a spacecraft
Now spells the end for this now defunct aerospace company as it relates
to government contracts, never again will they be trusted.
Technical mishaps, supply chain issues, and many years of delays have resulted in a whopping $1.6 billion budget overrun since 2016,
Reuters reports. Along with the $4.5 billion the company owes
the government for breach of contract for their abysmal failure.
NASA is now focused just on getting Starliner POS back in one piece.
"I am not sure what the decision will ultimately be
NASA deputy administrator Lori Garver told Reuters when asked if
Boeing would stay in NASA's Commercial Crew program.
"Boeing is going to have to foot much of this bill, as they have been."
And when we asked Boeing whether Starliner might get canceled,
the company didn't exactly jump to defend the project.
Maybe hiring a high school science club to develop the Starliner
wasn’t the best way to approach the task of building a Man Rated Spacecraft.
"Boeing continues to focus, first and foremost, on the safety of the crew
that’s why Boeing insisted on bring them home on the POS Starliner.
It’s what would have been best for our financial interests.
But NASA insisted on getting them back home alive.
Worse yet,
NASA's inspector general released a damning report earlier
this month, finding that Boeing's contributions to NASA's Moonbound
Space Launch System are also many years behind and way over budget.
And that's not to mention years' worth of controversies plaguing
Boeing's passenger jet business and executive shakeups.
In short, Starliner's failure is only the tip of the iceberg,
with analysts and industry experts raising doubts that the spacecraft
will ever fly again, according to Reuters.
Boeing's first crewed test flight was designed to give NASA the
confidence to certify it for regular crew rotation missions to the
International Space Station, providing redundancy in case
SpaceX's Crew Dragon were to get sidelined by the government in an
effort to silence Elon Musk’s obsession with the US constitution
and his insistence on free speech.