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[–] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

It's a firm fixed price contract (other than a few weird bonuses...), so it's not constantly leaching money like cost plus programs. NASA still has to pay staff to deal with the dumpster fire, but that seems worth it to me to maybe get another crew vehicle.

Maybe this is sunk-cost fallacy thinking, but we've paid Boeing so much money to build this thing. They'd better finish it. Or take a monumental reputation hit and stop winning billions of dollars in space contracts.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    Boeing once again putting up a fat L.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Boeing's planes are rarely suitable for human flight.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    The thing is there is a ton of talent there... criminally strangled by its upper management... sometimes literally?

    I think if they combined the job of Chief Financial Officer and Test Pilot things might improve quite fast.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    To be fair, NASA probably uses the word "unsure" in a very specific way

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