Boeing considers selling its space business, including Starliner: report

[Admin]

Boeing may sell its space business in the wake of troubles with its Starliner spacecraft program, according to a new report. But the discussions are at 'an early stage.'

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[bobs]

Corrupt corporate junk company which is declared a felon by courts!!! what an achievement !!!What ever it touches is junk and crap!! better go bankrupt before killing millions of travellers

 

[vadertime]

Boing needs to get out of the Starliner businees ASAP after it's spectacular failure to meet expectations after delays and cost overruns. Thank goodness NASA wisely negotiated a fixed price contract. However, the SLS is a whole different white elephant, which is far more expensive, late and way over budget. I'm not sure if NASA or Boeing can end that marriage, since there isn't another dance partner with those kind of resources not to mention the unbelievably high cost per SLS rocket launch according to the Inspector General.

NASA, and Congress, foolishly chose to go back to the moon after we'd already been there a dozen times back in the 1970s. If they wanted to build a permanent prescence on the moon then why not back then and why now.? NASA and Congress's focus should be on Mars and beyond and not that dead, stupid, useless rock orbiting 250K miles distance around the Earth. Build a high-orbit space platform so we can launch deep space vehicles to explore the solar system and beyond.

 

[Unclear Engineer]

Boeing does indeed seem to be in deep trouble. For instance, read https://www.yahoo.com/tech/boeing-strike-existential-threat-boeing-163755467.html .

And Artemis seems to be in other trouble, too. Not just the Orion capsule heat shield, but the whole schedule seems to depend on a lot of commercial companies needing to provide key equipment that has not even been designed, yet, much less tested at this time.

But, I am going to disagree with the posters above who think we should be skipping the Moon and heading directly for Mars.

We need experience with a continuously crewed habitat on the Moon before we are ready to try for something similar on Mars. And, there are plenty of reasons to want to use the Moon for scientific purposes, including both the geology of the Moon to learn more about the history of our own planet and planetary system, and for large, serviceable, upgradable telescopes that the Moon can shield from all of the interference we emit on Earth.

SpaceX seems like the obvious choice to support NASA's goals on the Moon. With some backup from other companies, such as Blue Origin, NASA could probably do away with the SLS and work with SpaceX to develop most of what is needed to get to the Moon and support a habitat there. And, SpaceX would probably appreciate the associated funding to do most of what it is planning to do anyway without NASA.

The way things are going now, I don't think NASA has much choice, other than failure. The funding by Congress is just not sufficient to finish the development of SLS and provide enough launches. But, if SuperHeavy and StarShip soon achieve their design capabilities, they would offer NASA a transportation option that it could actually afford.

 

[George²]

Still, I hope that the long-standing rumors of a big Jeff Bezos rocket turn out to be true someday. If New Armstrong comes to fruition, there will be Starship/SuperHeavy competition in superheavy space launch systems. Including at distances far beyond the Moon for manned spaceships.

 

[Classical Motion]

Just pure speculation. I think that once Space X gets it’s heavy certified, both demand and business will boom. Probably the most lucrative until A.I. becomes a cheap subscription. Then the search will be for cheap juice.

I think others will seek this tech and provide some competition. This reusable tech allows private billionaires access to this demand. And it’s so sheikh.

It could become a status symbol like a yacht. And a helipad is just so yesterday. Chopsticks are in.