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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12385165/Boeings-problem-plagued-Starliner-delayed-company-pushes-410-million-spacecrafts-maiden-astronaut-flight-year.html
Boeing's problem-plagued Starliner is delayed AGAIN as
company pushes $410 million spacecraft's maiden astronaut
flight to next year
NASA gave Boeing and SpaceX contracts to send crew to the
ISS back in 2014
Now nearly a decade later SpaceX is about to perform its
seventh mission
Rival Boeing, meanwhile, is still having teething trouble
with its Starliner vessel
. . .
What's happened to Boeing ??? More obsessed with
'pronouns' than actual engineering these days ???
Meanwhile, Musk's crew of geeks have beaten the
shit out of Boeing. Their odd approaches to R&D
have proven to be superior - and they don't CARE
if several rockets blow up early on because they
pack 'em with instruments that show exactly WHAT
went wrong ... then they FIX it.
First ship to land people on Mars - it's gonna
have the Space-X logo prominently displayed.
Yep, 'StarShip' is a big job - but Space-X damned
well WILL make it work while Boeing is still
messing around with itsy-bitsy capsules.
(Oh ... has NASA been DELAYING StarShip in hopes
Boeing can catch up ? Kinda has a smell ...)
Hey, you just CAN'T send people all the way to
Mars squished into an itsy-bitsy capsule. They'll
go nuts, can't invent enough busy-work to prevent
that. Oh, not much radiation shielding in itsy-bitsy
capsules either. StarShip could not only deliver the
people, but lots of the stuff for setting up the
preliminary habitats as well. Think BIG to go
to Mars ! It has to be more than "politics" and
"image".
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