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The future of Boeing's crewed spaceflight program muddy after Starliner's return

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/09/the-future-of-boeings-crewed-spaceflight-program-is-muddy-after-starliners-return/
> The space agency, under a fixed price agreement, agreed to pay Boeing $4.2 billion to develop the Starliner spacecraft; SpaceX would receive $2.6 billion for the development of its Crew Dragon vehicle.

> The NASA officials at the press conference said they were confident that Boeing would continue despite losing at least $1.6 billion so far on the fixed-price contract and facing more losses amid investigations into the thruster failures on Starliner's latest flight. But there were no Boeing officials to ask. In the immediate aftermath of the landing, the company issued a short statement that included this noncommittal comment about its plans: "We will review the data and determine the next steps for the program."

From the article, it seems like the implication is that the program is under review from the Boeing side and not the Nasa side.

So despite getting 61% more money for the project, they not only failed to achieve what SpaceX did with less money but actually lost another $1.6b on top of it while still failing to achieve the necessary result.

Boeing just seems to be really, really bad at this.

> Boeing just seems to be really, really bad at this.

Boeing isn't contracted for results, it's contracted to disperse pork (aka jobs and money) across the districts of politicians who vote for earmarked NASA funds.

Normally you’re supposed to make money off of pork though.
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