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Eric Berger: NASA indefinitely delays return of Starliner to review propulsion data
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Don't go blaming the talent pool when the decisions are primarily guided by profit.
Do you work for or with an old school aerospace company? My comment is based on years of experience in the industry. Do you think the talent pool at Boeing is the same as SpaceX and it is all the fault of a handful of senior execs? You don't give very much credit to the people doing the actual work, if so.
Do you think the talent pool at Boeing is the same as SpaceX and it is all the fault of a handful of senior execs? You don't give very much credit to the people doing the actual work, if so.
I'm not sure what you mean with that comment.
My comment was that regardless of how good Boeing's engineers are they're working with their hands tied behind their back due to budgetary constraints. They've done the best they can given the constraints they're working under.
I don't see how that is not giving credit where credit is due.
lack of budget has 0% to do with it.
My understanding is that they invest heavily in stock buybacks. Like Enron it’s not a matter of the company being broke, it’s just that they don’t use the money to deliver the product. They use it to keep the scam going while the top executives rake it in.
Okay, we'll just have to agree to disagree. You want to believe that Boeing only has the dumbest engineers on the planet, I want to believe that there are people at Boeing smart enough to design spacecraft who had to take shortcuts in their design because Boeing made bad decisions trying to manage a fixed price contract.