• threelonmusketeersM
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    213 months ago

    Welp, that’s that. I wonder how this will affect future flights. Will NASA require an extra test flight prior to Crew-1? If so, Boeing will be one rocket short, as all of the Atlas Vs have already been allocated.

    • Diplomjodler
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      153 months ago

      No way Starliner flies again. This whole thing has been a gigantic fiasco from day one. I hope they pull the plug and spend the money on programs with a future.

      • @[email protected]
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        -13 months ago

        I disagree, they have so much time and money investment into starliner, it has to fly again. They can’t throw out 15 years of development.

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            3 months ago

            It’s not a usual cost-plus contract, to my knowledge, the government hasn’t funded it beyond the initial half billion. Boeing is taking a bath on this capsule development, needs the crew contracts to recoup, and that’s why I don’t believe they will abandon it.

        • @[email protected]
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          133 months ago

          They definitely should throw away 15 years worth of development if they are unable to deliver. Any more money spent would be wasted

        • @[email protected]
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          73 months ago

          They’re more than $1.5 billion in hole on this contract, but they must be doing some math on how many future contracts they might miss out on if they back out.

        • @[email protected]
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          43 months ago

          Don’t throw good money after bad (or the sunk-cost fallacy).

          Though it’s not like all that development is lost. They retain all they’ve learned and developed. Just costs a bit to store the data.