• @mlg
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    151 month ago

    North American Aviation (NAA) made a better command module out of 1960s technology than what Boeing could ever dream of.

    Sadly NAA (later Rockwell) was bought out by Boeing.

    They’re like the Microsoft of aerospace. Buy out competition and then kill what they just aquired.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 month ago

      I understand the sentiment, and I’m definitely not a Boeing apologist. But the first version of the Apollo command module killed three astronauts. They had growing pains, too.