Boeing employees ‘embarrassed’ as Elon Musk’s SpaceX tasked with saving stranded astronauts

NASA has announced Elon Musk’s SpaceX will be tasked with saving two stranded astronauts, leaving Boeing employees “humiliated”.

The two astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, have been trapped on the International Space Station (ISS) since June 5.

Wilmore and Williams were flown to the ISS by the Boeing Starliner space capsule, but the aircraft leaked helium and had problematic thrusters.

Those issues have led the astronauts’ eight-day mission to turn into a six-month wait until SpaceX’s Crew Dragon can rescue them.

An anonymous Boeing employee has revealed NASA’s decision to hire the airliner’s rival, SpaceX, is “shameful”.

Boeing has faced heavy backlash over the last few months due to numerous commercial flight incidents.

“We have had so many embarrassments lately, we’re under a microscope. This just made it, like, 100 times worse,” they said.

“We hate SpaceX. We talk s–t about them all the time, and now they’re bailing us out. It’s shameful. I’m embarrassed, I’m horrified.”

[somanynames]

well, if Boeing wasn't hiring members of the Sopranos to "take out" the safety whistleblowers, maybe they wouldn't be in this position.

[billskuce]

Boeing practices Diversity, Equity and Incompetence when hiring and it shows.

[ThePoeticjustice]

Boeing should be thanking Elon Musk for saving their asses.

[trading]

DEI hires ? Cost saving exercises? What is it this time Boeing? The American people deserve better

[gene]

From a once loved and reputable ENGINEERING company to a bloated, greedy, CRT / DEI HR driven loser company. Will Boeing ever recover ????😢

[djspectrein]

Don't forget that they wanted spacex not to receive any fund and any mission from NASA for making capsule.
They - Boeing

[Helliconia]

Boeing has become a second rate aerospace company. They cannot even build reliable passenger planes. What hope, a space ship? Boeing employees can only blame themselves for being so slack.

[CodexIndia]

If it's Boeing, I ain't going.

[jackt]

shouldn't Boeing leadership be fired over this?

[TheNewThrone]

Imagine being hating on the people rescuing your astronauts. Thats what is shameful. Boeing needs to just shut down at this point

[klardfarkus]

Should have put Elon on this right away. When you have a disaster like this you need to get the best in at the begining

[chiggs]

We hate Space X, we talk shit about them all the time. That entitled arrogance says it all.

[TheLeatheryman]

As I understand it, it was a Boeing system that failed. Why should
NASA risk using them?.

[JoeDaManTheHC]

👀🐔👀🐔😁 Hahahahhahahahahha Instead of hating on SpaceX, how about build better aircraft first and then earn the right to be something SpaceX already IS...

[warlockpaladin]

This is what happens when the CEO is also the accountant.

[holdupwaitaminute.]

So Boeing has allowed pride over safety…
What a joke.

[DOWNUNDER.]

If its boeing, i would rather walk to space –
They went for a 8 day tour, and are stranded for 8 months.
Sounds like gilligans island.

[sailingstpommedeterre]

Hey boeing, here is a news flash...just for you: NASA IS THE CUSTOMER....NOT YOU, BOEING

[andyrbush]

That's what you get when you employ MBA's in a remote location instead of engineers on site.

[ogremair]

Hopefully Musk starts building commercial airlines too.