Space Exploration

Are NASA's future missions and budget justified?

  • It's worth the time and expenditures

    Votes: 222 65.9%

  • Complete waste of money

    Votes: 41 12.2%

  • We need to explore, but not at the current cost

    Votes: 74 22.0%
  • Total voters
    337
#3,778
#3,778
OrangeTsar said:
Wow…just wow….
Boeing is doing what Boeing does again 😬
I really feel bad for the commercial crew astronauts who got picked for the Boeing side. They probably originally felt like they won the lottery now they are probably wondering if they will ever fly, and if they even want to on Starliner
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Starliner astronauts be like

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#3,780
Boeing is a dying company. They were once on the forefront of technology, but they embraced the "make a buck now" mantra, and now they're circling the drain just like so many great companies like GE. If we don't get the Harvard business school types away from business, we're doomed.
 
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VolStrom said:
Boeing is a dying company. They were once on the forefront of technology, but they embraced the "make a buck now" mantra, and now they're circling the drain just like so many great companies like GE. If we don't get the Harvard business school types away from business, we're doomed.
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Shareholders and short term returns. Gotta love it.
 
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VolStrom said:
Boeing is a dying company. They were once on the forefront of technology, but they embraced the "make a buck now" mantra, and now they're circling the drain just like so many great companies like GE. If we don't get the Harvard business school types away from business, we're doomed.
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They used to me ran by engineers who rose through the ranks. Now they are ran by MBA bean counters who couldn’t engineer their way out of a paper bag
 
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OrangeTsar said:
They used to me ran by engineers who rose through the ranks. Now they are ran by MBA bean counters who couldn’t engineer their way out of a paper bag
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Same way with my former company. We were a Dow Jones Industrial 30 company for over 50 years and now they are barely in the S&P 500 after the hedge funds split the company and split the company and split the company again. Yay capitalism and China.
 
#3,784
#3,784
OrangeTsar said:
They used to me ran by engineers who rose through the ranks. Now they are ran by MBA bean counters who couldn’t engineer their way out of a paper bag
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Most of Boeings CEOs since William Boeing have been engineers.
 
#3,790
#3,790
hog88 said:
I would love to run that crane.
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About to say the same thing about the crane operator. I would be a nervous tick. I struggled with a home security system at Sears warehouse with a forklift decades ago. Set the system from ground level onto the loading dock and did not advance it far enough that is was literally tilting towards the ground level. Never will forget that.

I will pass on this monstrosity manuever.
 
#3,791
#3,791
Can you imagine how much payload they could launch into space if they made a superheavy heavy? Like a falcon heavy except with two of those superheavy boosters mounted on either side of a core superheavy booster.
 
#3,797
#3,797
SN20 rollout underway. It will be at the pad shortly. Next step….the first fully stacked starship/booster combo. It is going to be EPIC. Somewhere this morning, Werner von Braun is smiling broadly
 
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OrangeTsar said:
SN20 rollout underway. It will be at the pad shortly. Next step….the first fully stacked starship/booster combo. It is going to be EPIC. Somewhere this morning, Werner von Braun is smiling broadly
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Where he's at, I'm not sure smiling is allowed.
 
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