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Re:Boeing-SpaceX Team Split Space Taxi Award by anigbrowl on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @04:55PM (#8327066)
That's a perfectly reasonable sort of thing to promote. It might equally be that they don't want people to think of production delays that affected the launch of the 787 or F-35 (the latter being nothing to do with Boeing, but aerospace and space are strongly linked in the public's mind and the F-35 project is famous for not meeting deadlines).
Re:Boeing-SpaceX Team Split Space Taxi Award by Patrick_Devine on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @12:15AM (#8328573)
I sometimes wonder if anyone regrets having awarded the JSF contract to Lockheed Martin instead of picking the X-32. I honestly think part of the decision with going with the X-35 was because it looked a hell of a lot cooler than the X-32.
Re:Boeing-SpaceX Team Split Space Taxi Award by anigbrowl on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @12:22AM (#8328594)
I'm sure many people regret it, although I don't know enough to know what the 'right' decision was. For all the F-35's faults (notably its recurring failure to get off the ground...) at least it doesn't look like a giant frog: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-32#mediaviewer/File:Bo...