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Re:Boeing Starliner's first crewed mission scrubbed by golol on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @02:17AM (#40282887)
> I don't actually understand why this is, as it's not like SpaceX is relying on any sort of just extremely well guarded secrets

It's good management.

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Re:Boeing Starliner's first crewed mission scrubbed by newsclues on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @05:44AM (#40283827)
I think it’s incentives.

Boeing is not incentivized, nor has it been for a long, to do a good job.

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Re:Boeing Starliner's first crewed mission scrubbed by sdwr on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @09:27AM (#40285182)
From a macro view, competence requires growth, right?

Look at the 60s - there's tremendous excitement about space, astronauts are heroes, everyone is putting in 10x effort to get over the finish line.

What Boeing is being asked to do now is replicate this every few years, except all the attention, all the excitement, all the growth is gone. They have to recreate the miracle, but nobody cares!

SpaceX comes in and says - we have a new heroic mission. Do the same thing, but make it repeatable and efficient and stupid easy.

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Re:Boeing Starliner's first crewed mission scrubbed by throwawaymaths on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @12:24PM (#40287752)
Have you ever worked with ex-spacex middle management? It's not good management.
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