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Thursday, June 27, 2024

Two Astronauts Stuck in Space as Boeing Analyzes Starliner

After what started as an eight-day mission, US astronauts Sunita "Suni" Williams and Barry "Butch" Wilmore have now spent the better part of a month on their space capsule attached to the International Space Station as engineers work out the problems with Starliner.

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Guess this pretty much puts to restthe company's old gung-ho "If It Isn't Boeing, I'm Not Going" slogan.

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-06-26 12:00 PM | Reply

@#3 ... Guess this pretty much puts to restthe company's old gung-ho "If It Isn't Boeing, I'm Not Going" slogan. ...

Yup.

When Boeing went from engineer management of the company to MBA management of the company after the merger, profit (and not safety) seems to have become its calling card.

Boeing CEO defends his safety record, spars with senators and apologizes to crash victims' relatives (June 18, 2024)
apnews.com

... "This hearing is a moment of reckoning," the subcommittee chairman, Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said. "It's about a company, a once iconic company, that somehow lost its way."

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., placed the blame squarely on Calhoun, saying that the man who became CEO in January 2020 had been too focused on the bottom line.

"You are cutting corners, you are eliminating safety procedures, you are sticking it to your employees, you are cutting back jobs because you are trying to squeeze very piece of profit you can out of this company," Hawley said, his voice rising. "You are strip-mining Boeing."

Hawley repeatedly mentioned Calhoun's compensation for last year, valued at $32.8 million, and asked the CEO why he hasn't resigned. ...

While i sometimes disagree (strongly) with Sen Hawley, I think his opinion in this matter is spot-on.

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-06-26 12:35 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

I said when they launched that it was foolish to ride a new Boeing capsule into space. Sadly I was not wrong.

#3 | Posted by qcp at 2024-06-26 01:03 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#3

I said a similar thing, along the lines of, ~I'd not want to be one of the first to ride it into space.~

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-06-26 01:43 PM | Reply

push comes to shove I guess they could parachute down

#5 | Posted by brerrabbit at 2024-06-27 11:46 AM | Reply

push comes to shove I guess they could parachute down

#5 | POSTED BY BRERRABBIT

Go back to school. Your ignorance is showing.

#6 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-06-27 11:54 AM | Reply

#6 POSTED BY DONNERBOY

LOL....you're way to easy

#7 | Posted by brerrabbit at 2024-06-27 11:58 AM | Reply

You make it easy to have fun with you.

You set em up real nice. So it's easy to knock em down.

#8 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-06-27 12:09 PM | Reply

You set em up real nice. So it's easy to knock em down....#8 POSTED BY DONNERBOY

that made me laugh...it reminded me of a TV show I watched growing up in KC, called "Bowlin' with Molen" and the infamous 7-10 split for the $500 grand prize...about 70 years ago

#9 | Posted by brerrabbit at 2024-06-27 12:20 PM | Reply

Reminds me of when Reagan was in office and the decision was made to push ahead with a manned launch, even though there was ice everywhere. In this case, the leaks were known, but Boeing needed a win. Now it has two stranded astronauts, and one hopes they take another ride home than the one what brought them.

#10 | Posted by Hughmass at 2024-06-27 02:08 PM | Reply

The Starliner astronauts having to be rescued by a Soyuz or Dragon would be the entirely fitting end to the Starliner saga. It has been a long tale of Boeing/ULA tripping over their own dick repeatedly.

#11 | Posted by s1l3ntc0y0t3 at 2024-06-27 02:36 PM | Reply

CHIN
chinchinchin
CHIN

#12 | Posted by look_inward at 2024-06-27 02:37 PM | Reply

A for real Starliner !

#13 | Posted by brerrabbit at 2024-06-27 03:23 PM | Reply

The astronauts are probably glad they're getting the extra time in space.

#14 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2024-06-27 04:46 PM | Reply

womanaut goes psycho in 3,2,1...

#15 | Posted by look_inward at 2024-06-27 09:44 PM | Reply

chin. chinny chin chin. HAIR hair in my helmet! Aaahhh!

#16 | Posted by look_inward at 2024-06-27 09:46 PM | Reply

#16

You're drunk. Just stop, already

#17 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2024-06-27 09:50 PM | Reply

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