Damn you know they have real doubt about Starliner with this decision. People were saying Nasa was just being super careful and the vehicle was perfectly fine like Boeing said. But with the astronauts being forced to use Crew Dragon, they can't wear their space suits. Because the suits they use on Starliner aren't compatible with all the SpaceX stuff. This can be a big risk, if there is a problem with the vehicle, the astronauts have no protection. But Nasa must have decided that was a smaller risk over using the Starliner. That says a lot.
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Can't they just send up extra suits with the dragon capsule? Badly fitted suits are probably better than none, it's not like they are piloting it down.
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Oh no that's so embarrassing! Fucking Elon going to milk that for all its worth.
I hope the astronauts make it back safely.
That being said, can you imagine the irony of a Dragon capsule coming to rescue them to their deaths?
Boeing has jumped the shark entirely. A company that used to be run by engineers is now a shell of its former self and run by MBAs.
For what it’s worth, I used to work for the former Boeing CEO who blew up the company. He seemed unrepentant. Totally just a normal dude having a normal time. His WIFE however. Holy shit was she a ball of anxiety. She was so anxious she would give her elderly dog drugs to “calm him down.” The lady was a wreck.
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Boeing was perceived by much of the industry as the blueblood of spaceflight while SpaceX was the company that was going to kill astronauts due to its supposed recklessness.
Given leadership at both companies I wouldn't feel too comfortable being an astronaut these days.
I don't know why anyone would think that of Boeing. They did fuck all for space until acquiring McDonnell Douglas and parts of Rockwell in like 1997. Then they spun most of that off into ULA with Lockheed precisely because they didn't know what to do with it. Lockheed people have even run ULA for it's entire existence.
The part of Boeing behind Starliner isn't all that old. It's certainly younger and seemingly less talented than ULA.
I don’t know why anyone would think that of Boeing.
That's an easy question to answer: because most people think "big established aerospace company == must be competent, right?" and don't know any of the other stuff you wrote.
State of journalism these days unfortunately. I've learned more about all this by simply reading and listening to the NASA briefs myself. Which you'd think the guy who writes all the Ars articles about space stuff would also do being their job and all.
I disagree. SpaceX is rumoured to have hired an “Elon babysitter” and Gwynne Shotwell seems to know what she’s doing.
But musk sucks.
The good news is that he’s so busy with Twitter and Tesla that he’s left spaceX alone.
I think Elon has become (or perhaps always was) an ass, but somehow he knows how to hire some pretty smart people.
Gwynne runs the show at SpaceX, and frankly, she's fucking awesome at her job. The CEO is a blowhard, but Gwynne is calling the shots day to day.
I will say confideny that the problems with Tesla and Twitter's daily operations are with Elon being directly involved daily.
SpaceX has Gwynne to actually run daily operations and it's just fine. Elon says his usual shit, but it doesn't affect daily processes. The same cannot be said for Twitter and Tesla.
Agreed.
Dude for real. I'd rather strap myself to the rockets those sliderule nerds used to make.