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UPDATE: That was a lot shorter than the scheduled 8-minute burn time. Something went wrong, somewhere.
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Saturday, January 16, 2021
Artemis Test Fire
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UPDATE: That was a lot shorter than the scheduled 8-minute burn time. Something went wrong, somewhere.
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Some early assessment of what went wrong and how this has been such long-running mess
ReplyDeletehttps://arstechnica.com/science/2021/01/nasas-space-launch-system-rocket-shuts-down-after-just-67-seconds/
Boeing, again. {sigh}
ReplyDeleteBoeing indeed. Like IBM where I worked for 9 years, the sense of entitlement, the aerospace c'est moi, the stench of an Ernestine Ma Bell-like, 'We're Boeing, we don't have to care' (or be honest or produce good product on time and budget) pervades everything they do like a reverse Midas touch. And how soul-shriveling it must be for the good people, the worker bees that labor there, knowing that their efforts and imagination will be as nothing. My name is Boeing, king of aerospace, look on my works, ye mighty and despair.
ReplyDeleteYeah. I remember in 2019 when Boeing was touting its experience at manned space flight.
ReplyDeleteSo where are the Starliner flights? But I digress.
Now, I read somewhere that NASA/Boeing is pointing out that it's been fifty years since they last developed a manned spaceflight vehicle and all of the people who knew anything about that shit have retired and/or died. They speak out of both sides of their mouths. without shame.
" They speak out of both sides of their mouths. without shame."
ReplyDeleteWhen MBAs and salesmen run a company, how else? And their loyal minions, the bean counters....whose numbers never lie....of course, when you pick and choose the numbers, you can prove that water runs up hill.
"Once you've done away with integrity, the rest is a piece of cake." -J.R. Ewing
Of course, Mother Nature and the Universe aren't impressed by demos and sales fluff.
"all of the people who knew anything about that shit have retired and/or died."
ReplyDeleteThat wouldn't be a problem if they hadn't spent 50 years gutting the company of talent .
One of my customers when I was a Verizon tech expressed surprise when I expressed surprise that VZ had offered buyouts to anyone who had skills with a certain type of switch. He was a retired Pratt & Whitney engineer who noted to his boss that the small group who designed jet engine ptos (hydraulics, electrical power etc.) were all the same age & nearing retirement.Suggested finding a talented young person to train with them & preserve their experience. Response was" we'll get them to write down everything they know"!! They retired, design work was farmed out to Fiat.That's Boeing.
ReplyDeleteWe need the equivalent of a carbon tax on MBAs.
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