Well if the issue in your company that QA has essentially been cut from the budget by reducing times so much that it no longer feasible. I would not send anyone anywhere in your equipment unless it is independently audited.
They've know about the helium leak for a month now but managers “did not consider it significant enough to stop the launch”. It's always incompetent managers.
Not in this specific case. Starliner is a fixed-price contract, not cost-plus. Boeing is having to foot the bill for their own incompetence, and I'm all here for it!
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Badeendje@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 2y
Well if the issue in your company that QA has essentially been cut from the budget by reducing times so much that it no longer feasible. I would not send anyone anywhere in your equipment unless it is independently audited.
IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
Make the Boeing CEO and other executives be the first human guinea pigs in this thing.
wosat@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y
I suspect there is at least one engineer who voiced concerns months or years ago, was not listened to, and is now having an "I told you so" moment.
dustyData@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y
They've know about the helium leak for a month now but managers “did not consider it significant enough to stop the launch”. It's always incompetent managers.
intrepid@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 2y
Reminds me of Roger Boisjoly who desperately objected to launching space shuttle Challenger in cold weather. Managers struck again that day.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y
Another chapter in the endless clown show.
Rolando@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 2y
Clowns are generally highly-skilled professionals who care about their audience. Please don't compare them to Boeing.
kokesh@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y
No one would expect that
FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Good thing too, we don't need a door plug raining down from orbit
applepie@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y
But that taxpayer money keep flowing!
Any new dead whistleblowers?
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y
Not in this specific case. Starliner is a fixed-price contract, not cost-plus. Boeing is having to foot the bill for their own incompetence, and I'm all here for it!
applepie@kbin.social · 3 pts · 2y
Damn how did they botch that so bad? SpaceX effect?
davetapley@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
I expected software issues, maybe avionics, but a flange? How.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
derf82@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
You misheard. It’s a problem with plange. Computer plange. Specifically snibbits.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y
It's a helium leak. Helium has the capability to leak out of almost anything.