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H1B Hindus will ensure that US looks like the $hithole they made India.

They failed Intel/Boeing/IBM.. Google/MSFT etc are next.

Elon literally to the rescue.

The problem is safely separating the Starship from the ISS. There are only two docking ports on the ISS and the dead Starliner "bricks" one of them. The ISS can move (slowly, to avoid debris.) I think the move will be to release the docking clamp from the ISS side (is this possible?) and move the ISS away from the Starliner. FAR away. Then you fire up the remaining working thrusters on Starliner and deorbit that junk. Now you can dock another Dragon and get folks home.

They have to be running out of underwear by now. Fo' reals.

In 2014 NASA awarded contracts to two companies to build spacecraft capable of bringing astronauts and cargo to the International Space Station.

SpaceX received $2.6 billion, launched first mission in 2020 and has done 13 crew missions with 49 astronauts so far.

Boeing received $4.2 billion, first mission 2024 and stranded at the space station with leaks. Likely a total loss and the astronauts will be need to be rescued by SpaceX. Even worse, the software on Starliner cannot handle an automated undocking, possibly resulting in Starliner being permanently blocking one of two ports needed for other capsules to arrive.

https://x.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1822882624655818911

Boeing, twice the budget and time, and the outsourced code can't handle an undocking.

AmericanKulak says

In 2014 NASA awarded contracts to two companies to build spacecraft capable of bringing astronauts and cargo to the International Space Station.

SpaceX received $2.6 billion, launched first mission in 2020 and has done 13 crew missions with 49 astronauts so far.

Boeing received $4.2 billion, first mission 2024 and stranded at the space station with leaks. Likely a total loss and the astronauts will be need to be rescued by SpaceX. Even worse, the software on Starliner cannot handle an automated undocking, possibly resulting in Starliner being permanently blocking one of two ports needed for other capsules to arrive.

https://x.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1822882624655818911

Boeing, twice the budget and time, and the outsourced code can't handle an undocking.

I remember peeps on PatNet insisting that EULA was fucking toast because of SpaceX.

I also remember laughing at them.

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says

Yep :-|

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Colbert_III

https://thehill.com/business/ap-the-head-of-boeings-defense-and-space-business-is-out-as-company-tries-to-fix-troubled-contracts/

I've defended Boeing. They had no business being in space. The engineering, production, sales of commercial airlines is insane. Then decide let's go straight up into global orbit, completely the opposite of what they do.

Musk has the entire world outclassed with space. It's not even close. Competition is good. But countries can't even compete with SpaceX. Musk couldn't compete with Boeing in commercial airlines at all. Gotta stay in your lane. It took forever for him to get cars right, but I feel like he's passed the leadership on that one down. His bet is on space at this point. He'll make more money with larger payloads than anyone can compete with on the planet.

Space development requires the best of the best. If it's a black man, fine, etc. But space is hard and cruel, and no number of "Cumbaya" chants can change that. Incompetence - people die.

Apollo 13 - spergs were in their element. Acknowledge reality, and reap the benefits - it's not about racial diversity, but neurodiversity. The spergs worked for 48 hours straight to get the alpha astronauts home.

Musk understands this - the spergs have their place. For them, it's easier to engineer a rocket to successfully fly to mars to figure out how to get laid.

The Boeing Executive had like a BA in Aerospace History or some sheeeeit.