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    1 month ago

    They better hurry up, or the mental patients astronauts scheduled to fly on it might finally come to their senses and realize that NASA is sending them into space in a capsule made by Boeing.

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    1 month ago

    I have it direct from the CEO of Boeing, it’s just a minor “quality escape”. nothing to worry about, we have them all the time.

    When questioned further on what exactly is a “quality escape” he got confused, and failed to give a coherent answer.
    But apparently Boeing does not recognize faults, because faults are bad, instead they have occasional quality escapes, which are OK, and not a big deal.

    https://www.businessinsider.com/boeing-ceo-says-alaska-airlines-blowout-caused-by-quality-escape-2024-1

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    North American Aviation (NAA) made a better command module out of 1960s technology than what Boeing could ever dream of.

    Sadly NAA (later Rockwell) was bought out by Boeing.

    They’re like the Microsoft of aerospace. Buy out competition and then kill what they just aquired.

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      I understand the sentiment, and I’m definitely not a Boeing apologist. But the first version of the Apollo command module killed three astronauts. They had growing pains, too.

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        I had to check if that was actually there because at first I just couldn’t believe. It’s actually there. The author of this piece just casually put a section titled “Threat” under their contact details, as if that’s a normal thing you include when you share your writing.