Great article on how Boeing has failed

It wouldn’t be surprising if on every Space Station mission there is a contingency plan that includes a problem with the return vehicle requiring the trip to be extended. The astronauts probably go up knowing that the mission could be weeks longer than planned. Every time we take off in our planes, it’s with the understanding that a divert might happen due to a squawk or an overnight turns into a couple days due to weather. Same thing in space, right? Just on a grander scale.
 
ateamer said:
It wouldn’t be surprising if on every Space Station mission there is a contingency plan that includes a problem with the return vehicle requiring the trip to be extended. The astronauts probably go up knowing that the mission could be weeks longer than planned. Every time we take off in our planes, it’s with the understanding that a divert might happen due to a squawk or an overnight turns into a couple days due to weather. Same thing in space, right? Just on a grander scale.
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It's my understanding that they have approximately six months of supplies. If Musk hasn't rescued them by then, they default to Donner Party rules.....
 
The column the Accounts forgot to account for was the Credibility column. It used to by everyone went to Boeing because they were the experts and they were trusted as the experts. The thing the 737 Max issues revealed was that Boeing could no longer be trusted as an airplane manufacturer (for whatever the reasons that led to that) and needed oversight. Following issues and investigations only re-enforced the belief they can't be trusted. They had previously been trusted to do things right and had a lot of capital in that trust, i.e. freedom and low cost to do things correctly. Now they need to re-earn (purchase) that Credibility and that will take a long time and a lot of money.
Trust is easy to lose and hard to re-earn.



Brian
 
Half Fast said:
It's my understanding that they have approximately six months of supplies. If Musk hasn't rescued them by then, they default to Donner Party rules.....
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Ha ha!

“So, um. Houston? Y’all can send the smaller ship this time.”

I have no doubt they must have multiple contingencies. At this point, Boeing should be over. Huge loss for America but we are not well served by dumping money into a company that has lost its way and credibility.
 
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