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Boeing employees ‘humiliated’ that upstart rival SpaceX will rescue astronauts stuck in space: ‘It’s shameful’

https://nypost.com/2024/08/25/us-news/boeing-employees-humiliated-that-spacex-will-save-astronauts-stuck-in-space/

WookieMan says

I have defended Boeing in the past. They shouldn't be in space in my opinion. But, is the docking part 100% on Boeing? I admittedly have not read too much into this specific story. I'm fine with launching satellites into orbit, but I think the space station is a waste of time at this point. Maybe it's time to just let it go. Have they not had a couple decades to study? It's low earth orbit anyway. There can't be anything else to discover unless we're sending idiots up there.

Two problems:

1: Because the Shitliners software was written in Mumbai and is full of errors (same reason a previous Shitliner test launch failed to reach orbit), and there's a thruster issue, they may not be able to 'drive it out of the parking lot'. And you can't put somebody on board to fly it manually or they'll stand a chance of dying to save a MIC Boondoggle.

2. The problem with the Space Station is they never have ENOUGH people onboard to do any serious R&D. It takes 3-4 F/T people to maintain the thing in space. There needs to be at least 6-7 people on it F/T to get anything done.

2b. The #1 thing we should be doing in LEO with the space station is testing Artificial Gravity and Engineering to support it. For every tenth of a G, it's believed a lot of long term physical issues are mitigated. Getting this done is key to any kind of Mars or long term Moon mission.

2c. The #2 and #3 reasons is to produce hydroponic food in quantity and deal with mold issues. The ISS (and all long term LEO occupied vehicles) stinks to high heaven from it.

A satellite made by Boeing just fell apart in space... A communications satellite built
by Boeing has fallen apart while in orbit... On Saturday, Intelsat said its 33e satellite
stopped working due to an "anomaly" before confirming its "total loss" on Monday.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/22/24277073/intelsat-33e-boeing-satellite-fell-apart-space

This is what happens when you build satellites and airplanes with parts that do not meet
specs. In 2022 the 737-800 in Flight MU5735 in China was shedding parts one minute before
the nose dive.

"Evidence suggests China Eastern flight started falling apart midair..."
https://fortune.com/2022/03/25/evidence-midair-breakup-china-eastern-flight-guangxi/

Boeing is changing their name to 'Boeing-Netflix', "where DEI fantasy meets engineering reality" or "We go woke and go boom".