re: #148 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

This is disappointing

Memories of a discussion with someone who was part of the process — Boeing got “into space” by buying Hughes Aircraft Corporation which didn’t build aircraft any more but boy could they build spacecraft, usually for spook reasons (see also Glomar Challenger etc.). Boeing decided that commercial aircraft manufacturing processes, materials and engineering would work for spacecraft so they fired all the nitpickers and fussbudgets they inherited from HAC because they were impacting the financial bottom line. The result (predictably) was a decade and more of dismal failures on the launch pad and in orbit. This fuckup seems to be more of the same, unfortunately.