While possible I doupt they will. You sabotage your competitors in congress if you can. However operations like this should be allowed and even cheered.

The worst case now for Boeing is a series of disasters that leaves the public unwilling to fund anymore space thus killing not only SpaceX, but also Boeing. If Boeing sabotages SpaceX not only do they risk that they also risk getting caught by the investigation which would be bad for Boeing. Note that unsuccessful sabotage meaning you are caught is a real risk as well.

Wow, a pre-emptive conspiracy theory. Can we maybe please wait at least until stuff happens before we come up with outlandish theories on how it happened? That would cut down some of the noise making signal recovery that much easier. Every dB matters...

Doubt it. Boeing and other companies are filled with people who just want spaceflight to succeed.

If Boeing wants to sabotage SpaceX they aren't going to do it with a bomb. They'll do it with Congress. Make up some crazy requirements that SpaceX has to go through to launch people, acres of red tape that somehow Boeing has already done type sabotage. Maybe point out to all of the congressmen how many jobs their districts are going to lose if SpaceX gets the contract and Boeing has to dump the SLS program entirely.

Which would mean SpaceX will just go it alone. It really would look bad for NASA if SpaceX then does manned missions that NASA can't do.

NASA can not count on the SLS to do the job, if only because it costs do much to launch the SLS that NASA can not afford many missions with it.

> It really would look bad for NASA if SpaceX then does manned missions that NASA can't do.

that's been the case for almost a decade now. just replace spacex with the soyuz rocket.

No, NASA loves SpaceX and they wouldn't dump them over one failure, which let us remember do happen in space travel, Boeing had one with their crew module just recently.

Instead NASA would launch an intensive investigation, discover Boeing was behind it, and pass the data on to the Department of Justice which would indict the people responsible for murder, and that would be the the end of Boeing's space division.

"pass the data on to the Department of Justice"

In the case of the second Boeing 737MAX8 crash that murdered more than two passengers for which the finger of blame points towards MCAS the blackbox audio recording will never be heard in evidence although it sits somewhere possibly in a Government's office.

The difference is that Boeing commercial aviation is immensely important in terms of income, employment, politics and share of gdp and import revenue, whereas Boeing aerospace is much smaller in absolute terms and position in the marketplace, and SpaceX has things NASA wants more. That means it is far more likely the DOJ would do things right.

>If there was ever a crucial moment for Boeing to play dirty, this would be it.

Yeah, Boeing is going to sabotage this launch, just like Big Oil, Big Auto, Big Media and Big ShortSeller sabotage Tesla.

These companies have a delusional fanbase.

Don't forget about Tory Bruno's sniper