• @[email protected]
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      It’s only worth its contracts at this point and those are negligible. The space industry is starting to boom with innovative new startups and launch services getting cheaper with reusable rockets. Boeing already has a storied legacy as well as a foothold in the industry and they still managed to fuck it up. Absolutely worse than morning leadership to not be able to capitalize on what they already have.

      It’s like if Google decided to sell off the AI portion of their business.

  • partial_accumen
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    5010 hours ago

    Could this be a trick to try to put the liabilities of active Commercial Crew obligations into a dead end company while the parent keeps all $4.2 billion the government spent?

  • @[email protected]
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    4011 hours ago

    Makes sense considering overall they’re hemorrhaging money due to the ongoing strike. That and their capsule issues.

  • @[email protected]
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    2710 hours ago

    No thanks. If I wanted to blow myself up, I’d ride the one that looks like a penis built by the guy who also looks like a penis.

    • @[email protected]
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      1210 hours ago

      There’s nothing they need from Boeing. Dragon and Falcon are both proven platforms already. Boeing doesn’t have much to offer that SpaceX doesn’t already have a solution for.

        • @[email protected]
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          78 hours ago

          Those engineers are free to leave and go work for SpaceX instead. You don’t buy a failing business division to get a few people and trash everything else.

  • sunzu2
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    010 hours ago

    Ohh wow… Taxpayer wont bail this fail out 🤕

    • RubberDuck
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      Don’t be too sure. Boeing space has heavy synergy with their early and missile departments.