Two astronauts wait to come home as Boeing races to understand spacecraft issues. Here’s what’s at stake | CNN
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Two NASA test pilots helming the inaugural crewed flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft are in a tentative position as mission teams scramble to learn more about issues that plagued the first leg of the journey.
  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    A bunch of MBAs doing pivot tables to decide if the PR damage of killing astronauts is higher than the cost of like 2 engineers.

  • BlueMagaChud [any]
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    5 months ago

    oh, let me guess, a sensor that has no redundancy has failed?

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      They replaced so many of their engineers with MBAs that the sensor backend is excel and the frontend is powerpoint. It's held together by a completely inscrutible vbscript written by a network engineer who just wants to be left alone until retirement.

  • Infamousblt [any]
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    5 months ago

    I hope these astronauts make it back, but also it will do a hell of a lot more for society if they don't. Might be enough to completely crater Boeing.

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      If Boeing craters there will just be another Boeing. The way to fix this specific problem either forcing any company that makes safety critical products to be employee owned, or something like requiring c-suites maintain a p.eng. and have to sign off on products explicitly.