Boeing's Starliner FUBAR?

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  • Boeing's Starliner FUBAR?

    NASA and Boeing found other critical issues with the Starliner's software following its failure to go into the right orbit.

    (In the past, Boeing's been rather snarky towards SpaceX, saying that Boeing's got experience in manned flight, mainly because Boeing's joint venture with Lockheed-Martin, claiming some sort of corporate knowledge from flying man-rated Atlas boosters nearly sixty years ago.)

    Boeing is betting that NASA's going to make them fly the unmanned orbit test a second time.

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    Boeing does seem to be struggling with it's software lately.
    I Earned my Spurs in Vietnam
    48th AHC 1971-72

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Bill Bridges View Post
      Boeing does seem to be struggling with it's software lately.
      I don;t know if they began going to hell when they moved their HQ to a place where they had no manufacturing plants. But I've heard enough to suggest that Step One would be to retire, fire, or shoot everyone in upper-level of management that came from McD-D.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Stephanie Belser View Post
        retire, fire, or shoot everyone in upper-level of management that came from McD-D.
        Having worked there briefly on the doomed MOL program, I'll go along with that.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Ralph Jones View Post
          the doomed MOL program
          Hi Ralph,
          Hmm, speaking of MOL:



          and thinking of our new Space Force: Wondering how long before “The Force” employs a manned spaceflight capability. Thinking along the lines of a Hermes, Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar or Boeing X-37 sort of vehicle for hands-on access to . . . ah . . . stuff.







          Regards,
          Tom Charlton

          "The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Tom Charlton View Post
            Hmm, speaking of MOL
            What a cluster**** that was. This being 1969, most of the software was to run on the ground, uploading results during pretty short station passes, and it was to be written in JOVIAL. I was supposed to write the spec for a routine that would control what went on in the cylindrical section. Every time I tried to get specs for interfaces between subsystems, I was told "That's not decided yet, make it adaptable."

            I had a physicist in the Santa Monica plant to help with it, and I learned of the cancellation in a phone call from him; he'd heard it on the radio driving in. The announcement to us came hours later.

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