• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    21 days 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?

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    21 days ago

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

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      21 days ago

      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.

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    20 days ago

    My first thoughts on this were “good” but after giving it some thought I realized how fucked up this is.

    Boeing could’ve used this as an opportunity to learn from their mistakes. They could have done some serious self reflection. Instead they said, “nah, fuck that” and will now probably approve their biggest stock buyback ever.

    What an abysmal failure of a company.

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      21 days 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.

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          21 days 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.