dae privatization makes everything better and more efficient and innovative
The point of a system is what it does, and it's always cranking out better, more efficient, innovative schemes to gobble up as much money as humanly possible
Agreed; capitalism isn't failing as much as it's successfully fulfilling its purpose that happens to be gradually killing us all.
And like a rolling wave, when one corpo takes it too far and is pulled under, another one just rides the same wave up, and it just keeps on churning and breaking on us. The problem is the wave, not one particular mass of water among the others.
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/24/nx-s1-5087892/nasa-starliner-astronaut-return-iss-spacex
NASA actually made SpaceX do the test flights before putting people on it
Boeing Starliner had crewless test flights, too, including with the very vehicle in question.
This is happening entirely because NASA is applying appropriate regulatory oversight. Boeing has benefitted from privatization and regular/expected government contracts. Their waste and poor practices are being put to the test and exposed.
Hang them out to dry. Very happy to see corruption and waste in the military industrial complex get exposed on a scale we haven't seen in my lifetime. This is all just the tip of the iceberg, but I hope it's the start of a larger correction and clean-up.
Starliner skipped its in-flight abort test and only had one actual uncrewed docking test with the ISS, during which multiple systems failed. That is not adequate testing.
I don't follow space stuff much, so I mostly know about the early SpaceX rockets blowing up and the usual Elon grifting stuff. I kinda just imagined the pods bursting like a cybertruck.
Those explosions were the discarded first stages at the part of the flight where every other rocket on earth just drops its first stage into the sea or kazakh countryside anyway
I think there is also news from today about potentially concealed electrical problems on the 737 too
edit: looks like this story broke 2 days ago-ish
