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Re:FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s by habinero on Saturday January 06, 2024 @11:45PM (#38898529)
The aviation side of Boeing doesn't do rockets. That's a completely separate org which is part of the ULA consortium.

SpaceX has (ok, had) good PR, but they don't do anything others couldn't do. And they'd be bankrupt without NASA.

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Re:FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s by trogdor on Sunday January 07, 2024 @12:45AM (#38898812)
>they'd be bankrupt without NASA

Most companies would be bankrupt without their customers. A $5 billion government contract isn’t something that can be dismissed as the recipient ‘being kept solvent by Uncle Sam.’

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Re:FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s by mulmen on Sunday January 07, 2024 @01:49AM (#38899111)
SpaceX is doing things nobody else has done. ULA is equally reliant on government dollars. Boeing is a company that builds rockets and airliners and they aren't doing a great job of either at the moment. Who else is responsible for that if not the C-suite?
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