• @[email protected]
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    865 months ago

    Therefore, Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft will undock from the station early next month—the tentative date, according to a source, is September 6—and attempt to make an autonomous return to Earth and land in a desert in the southwestern United States.

    The whole world will be watching that and if it fails, so will Boeing.

    What a fucking mess Boeing’s gotten itself into.

    • @IphtashuFitz
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      455 months ago

      Not to worry. I’m sure the Boeing executives golden parachutes will save them.

    • UnfortunateShort
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      215 months ago

      Probably not even Boeing’s space program.

      Airbus can’t just jump in and suddenly make all the planes to replace Boeing’s civilian sector. Moreover they are irreplaceable in the defence sector. If Boeing really is to go down completly, it will take years of bad news.

        • @Zacpod
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          55 months ago

          This is the way. Bail them out when they tank, but do so with a 51% (pr more!) stock purchase by the gov on behalf of the people/society. Force a new board. Fix the company. If they’re ever profitable again they’re free to buy their stock back from the gov at the market price. I’m not usually a capitalist, but an /actual/ capitalist bailout seems like a good way to fix the rot in this case.

    • @[email protected]
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      175 months ago

      Boeing has already failed… to what scale will be directly proportional to how big of a fireball this thing turns into.

    • @assassin_aragorn
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      45 months ago

      To say Boeing has gloriously fucked up is an understatement