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Re:NASA, SpaceX set May 27 as target date for first crew launch by woodandsteel on Friday April 17, 2020 @07:20PM (#22903926)
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.

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Re:NASA, SpaceX set May 27 as target date for first crew launch by pm321 on Saturday April 18, 2020 @07:27AM (#22906965)
"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.

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Re:NASA, SpaceX set May 27 as target date for first crew launch by woodandsteel on Saturday April 18, 2020 @08:24PM (#22912314)
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.
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