/sci/ - Science & Math

>>14538654
>barely has enough rockets left to launch contracted missions
>NASA just awarded contracts to 2030 with no new Stinkliner launches because no more rockets

>>12789374
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>Boeing was once synonymous with innovation, elite achievement, and flawless execution

>With this enviable legacy built up over decades of hard work, Boeing jealously safeguarded the institutional knowledge that they had hard won. Right?

>No. They bought out McDonnell Douglas, their previous competitor whose passenger aircraft had failed in the market due to questionable accounting decisions

>So naturally they installed this failed executive team at the top of their org, who then pushed out Boeing’s existing management, moved HQ to Chicago for no reason, stovepiped the organization, pushed about 10,000 experienced engineers and technicians into early retirement, embarked on the enormously ambitious 787 project, pushed design work out to ~50 subcontractors and acted surprised when this failed egregiously, in exactly the same way as it had for McDonnell before and Douglas Aviation before them.

>Boeing learned their lesson and rehired the sort of in house talent necessary to once again vertically integrate construction of advanced aircraft. Right? Of course not. Instead, they squandered billions in lobbying and regulatory capture, and then fumbled development on the 737 MAX (killing 346 people), F35 (not the prime), KC-46, Starliner, and SLS.
Boeing what the FUCK

>>12673927
>planning on sending two civilians to the great beyond
They'd be going to the great beyond for sure on Starliner.

>>12598618
>boeing
>lowest

>>12578095
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>The orbiter's aluminum structure could not withstand temperatures over 175 °C (347 °F) without structural failure
oh my fucking god this thing NEVER should have been carrying people. The Space Shuttle can't even handle temperatures of a KITCHEN OVEN. Yeah lets send something made of butter through 9000+F degree plasma with the only thing between 7 people and satan's spicy asshole being porous glass tiles you can crush with your bare hands held in place by fucking GLUE

I mad


Oh, and meanwhile 304 stainless steel is over here handling temps upwards of 1700F with 2,550F being its melting point. (https://www.marlinwire.com/blog/what-is-the-temperature-range-for-304-stainless-steel-vs-316-vs-330))

>>12350675

>>12349651
We at /sfg/ don't call it the death trap just mere mockery

>>11686257