I’ll leave this Screenshot of an exchange I had a few weeks ago. A couple of replies were giving a soft defense of Boeing:
Particularly embarrassing considering the incredible progress SpaceX is making, including today’s launch and successful splashdown of both starship and the booster. The entry was wild, too - one of the fins burned halfway off, but the damn thing still worked fine lol
Maybe they’ll put a Starliner in the cargo bay of the next Starship launch.
Only a matter of time for another Challenger incident to set space exploration back another 20 years.
I think most in society get that human space exploration is extremely risky, but to flirt with that risk with a known variable tipping the scales the wrong way seems like a business decision rather than an engineering one.
At least the front didn’t fall off.
Who would expect something like that…
