Game Over! NASA & Boeing hats off to SpaceX and Elon Musk...

Game Over! NASA & Boeing hats off to SpaceX and Elon Musk...
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Game Over! NASA & Boeing hats off to SpaceX and Elon Musk...
Just like historical dynasties that eventually collapse and are replaced by new ones, Boeing is experiencing the same fate, with its golden era now only a thing of the past.
Looking back seven years ago, in 2017, Boeing's then-CEO Dennis Muilenburg told Jim Cramer, the host of CNBC's program, that: “Eventually we're going to go to Mars and I firmly believe the first person that sets foot on Mars will get there on a Boeing rocket.”
Musk responded to the comment on X and said, “Do it.” Boeing accepted the challenge, responding to the rival CEO with a short, “Game on!”
If it were back then, any of us would have thought that Boeing would definitely beat SpaceX. Not to mention landing on Mars—even with their achievements in space and Boeing's pride in their past successes, such as their participation in the Apollo program and their construction of some modules on the space station—Boeing was very confident in their strong capabilities.
Game Over! NASA & Boeing hats off to SpaceX and Elon Musk...
But, surprisingly, in just a short period, Boeing has gone from being a well-performing company to one that continuously makes mistakes in every aspect.
On the other hand, as of now, SpaceX is the winner. They are the world's leading provider of rocket launch services. With rockets that land themselves on autonomous drone ships, their own astronauts, their crew vehicle, and the Starship under development, SpaceX is miles ahead.
For the past four years, the Dragon spacecraft has been the only vehicle to transport astronauts to and from the ISS. An even bigger advantage is that Dragon was assigned to resupply cargo back in 2012.
Moreover, SpaceX's Dragon is now even considered a solution to save Boeing's Starliner project.
This not only prevents the old giant Boeing from getting out of the mud but also deals a severe blow to the morale of the entire company's staff.
Boeing's employees have been 'humiliated' after NASA's decision regarding Starliner. "We have had so many embarrassments lately, we’re under a microscope," one Boeing worker said, speaking under condition of anonymity. "This just made it, like, 100 times worse."
Game Over! NASA & Boeing hats off to SpaceX and Elon Musk...
"We hate SpaceX," he added. "We talk shit about them all the time, and now they’re bailing us out."
In the spirit of "a rapid decline," this worker stated that many people at Boeing are blaming NASA for this humiliation.
They have their own PR issues and don’t need two dead astronauts," he said. "But we didn’t think that there would be dead astronauts. We’d never have recommended that they use us if they thought that it was going to be unsafe for them."
Elon Musk also commented on this: “Arguably, a natural turn of events. Just as the car companies did not dominate the medium of air (they tried), the aircraft companies will not dominate the medium of space.”
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[allenc]

From an old Chrysler employee thier best years from the mid 30's to the 60's were when the company leaders were engineers and there worst was when the leaders were book keepers.

[XCX]

Key words for Boeing: historic, unreliable and irrelevant. It's a shame a once great company has fallen so far. To result to cheating, lying and schoolyard antics clearly indicates a company on a path to demise. Great video, have a great labour day ☕

[stephensfarms]

Thanks awesome video, Go SpaceX ‼️‼️‼️

[timtulowitzky]

Boeing is operating their management like having a Calvary captain that can’t ride a horse. They’re hiring managers that only have a degree in management, and do not have enough or even at all, experience in the sectors they are managing! They need to hire managers that have the most experience by hiring from the sectors. It’s like having more static than a picture.

[_TONY_Az]

My advice is try getting a job at space x for training

[petemccalam]

What AT! You haven't heard the radio coms from ISS about the wierd Knocking noise from the Starliner Capsule? Really?

[clarencehopkins]

NASA must have a complete staff change!

[ANGRY_AMERICAN]

The majority of Boeings experience retired years ago or have plush desk jobs or get paid to rub elbows in DC for more contracts

[kendrickpi]

Let’s give credit to Gwynne Shotwell for it is their hand that is on the Space X tiller!

[_TONY_Az]

Time to move over boeing you been replaced

[ttch]

Next white elephant project is the Artemis, which needs to be canceled as well. 2.7 billion just for the launch tower? WTF

[scurge]

Boeing is a living example of what happens with DIVERSITY SPACEX!!!

[henrypierce]

There are only 6 man-ratted rockets left that Boeing craft. What happends when they are used?

[chaturangaonline]

While Boeing has significant expertise in aerospace and has been involved in various space programs, including the Space Launch System (SLS) for NASA's Artemis program, its focus has been more on traditional aerospace applications and crewed missions to the Moon and low Earth orbit rather than Mars colonization specifically.

**SpaceX**, on the other hand, has a more aggressive agenda for Mars exploration, with its Starship project specifically designed for missions to Mars and beyond. Elon Musk has publicly stated his goal of establishing a human settlement on Mars, and SpaceX has made considerable strides toward that goal.

Boeing's knowledge and capabilities in space exploration are certainly valuable, but its current projects are primarily aligned with NASA's goals for lunar exploration and partnerships with government agencies, whereas SpaceX is actively pursuing interplanetary travel.

[_TONY_Az]

ATTENTION BOEING EMPLOYEES AND UPPER MANAGEMENT FOCUS ON SAVING THE COMPANY AND STOP THE PLANES FROM FALLING OUT OF THE SKY. AND AVOID BANKRUPTCY YOUR SHARE HOLDERS ARE PISSED NOW LAST CHANCE BEFORE ELON BUYS YOUR COMPANY

[nasunorahl]

BOEING is focused on autonomous full size submarines for the DOD. Black budget $ spends better.

[JohnBolden-si]

Who gives a damn! If they're butt hurt! People are suffering in space
while planes are falling out of the skies. No let them make and maintain decent planes. ?!??

[ANGRY_AMERICAN]

The only way Boeing could hope to remotely catch up to SpaceX would be to build a Single Stage To Orbit the size and capacity of a 747

[hughdietrich]

Spent my time reading comments and and 7 seconds viewing the video. Too much pontificating in these current videos.

[garylester]

Yeah, its the cycles...
Seeing the same patterns every where else. old and decadent versus new and innovational.

Even SpaceX has the Pox; all the old NASA retreads, and the new Enginerds trained in tech institutes by more old dogs...

You know its bad, when people out side of a field can see whats wrong, and people in that field think everything is hunky dory...

Like Government now.
Or the Church, and the list goes on.

Boeing, NASA, Government, all need new thinking.
And theres always an Entrenched Elite. And some nut cases mixed into the revolutionaries.

Making new voices have a hard time getting heard.

The good news, is Elon has figured out a partial solution, by opening up input from the bottom and from outside.

It took alot of doing for that to happen, I literally got banned by Wall Hanger Gate Keepers on Space Forums repeatedly before beating them like bad dogs, at the Battle of Parts Count.

Had stuff spread and get used before that, but that was their Waterloo as pretencious A-holes...

I have probably scored on SpaceX nearly a dozen times by getting stuff to spead in online comments. And other guys have picked up on the technique too.
I see great concepts being published below the official influencer level...
The what-aboutism is a target rich environment...
I've seen lately 9 things I have done writs on being used at Blue Origin, no sure connection, could just be someone there who thinks similar.

And just so they know: machining out aluminum tank parts is absurd. New engines are powerful enough to switch to stainless, which has better weldment characteristics than aluminum. Aluminum weld zones have fractional strength. Betcha that tank they blew up recently came apart at the welds...

And we haven't seen hide 'ner hair of the BE-4 for awhile, methinks it has become a post parts count embarassment.
Jeffie really needs to Flog his Enginerds like Elon did, get a simplification Mantra going.

Other than those two issues, as far as I can see BO is building a very nice rocket, makes Starship look crude here and there.

They even have gone to longitudinal gores on some tube sections, means they are potentially inching towards shaped hulls, rather than glorified toilet paper tubes...

And their fins are way better than Spacex's Flappers and Grid Fins...

More refined, instead of so agricultural.

I think if Jeff gets a real engine, and goes to stainless, and upscales, BO can compete with SpaceX.

Also BO is using a better build system, more open water ahead, SpaceX is lost in the stacking swamp.

The way I have found to have best effect at concept planting, is to look for missed logic, and then post it a few times and on several forums.

Then other guys will see it and get it, and start posting it too.

Like I post about tapered hulls, that came from Kiwi Beck.
Just genius obvious...
And Stoke Space is also using it now.

Rocket Lab and Stoke are likely to be biting SpaceX and BO's heels in the next ten years.

And there are more coming....

Also NASA and Boeing could see reorganizations and get back in it...

They need to have French Revolutions to their Bureaucracies...

I could see that happening soon...
Some chance of good brains in government....
And the Stockholders at Boeing need to stage a coup.