by Jeff Childers
Futurism ran a story Thursday headlined, “NASA Abandons Boeing’s Cursed Starliner for Upcoming Missions to the Space Station.” Cursed. The sub-headline glumly asked, “Could this be the end of Starliner?”
The news was that, despite having invested $5 billion in the project, NASA reluctantly deleted Boeing’s troubled Starliner from all upcoming scheduled space missions through at least 2026. The change leaves SpaceX’s Dragon as the agency’s lone domestic provider. (NASA also demurely confirmed it will continue seat-swapping with the Russians on certain space station missions).
Adding insult to injury, NASA’s decision comes as two of its astronauts remain stranded on the International Space Station, where they will be literally hanging out until February.
It’s only fair to note that, during Starliner’s first crewed test mission, it did not actually explode. It delivered its crew to the space station and returned home on robopilot in more or less one piece. The trouble was that the whole trip was plagued with minor but nettlesome problems, comparable to say, unplanned wheel droppage during airplane landings, but not quite as bad as rapid unscheduled door plug relocation.
Ironically, NASA originally considered dividing its multi-billion dollar budget between blue-blooded Boeing and scrappy SpaceX, but ultimately decided to award nearly all the money to Boeing. SpaceX was largely forced to self-finance, while Boeing built its now sidelined spaceship using taxpayer dollars.
Figures.
One advantage SpaceX has over its much older competitor is that Musk’s company enjoys a leaner, more entrepreneurial corporate culture. That’s a fact, but the main difference between the two companies is that Boeing made DEI its top priority, whereas SpaceX got sued for refusing to hire illegal immigrants, and kept its top priority focused on lowering the per-kilogram price of reliably getting cargo into orbit.
The moral of the story is: Go woke, go broke. But Boeing shouldn’t get all the blame. The religion of Wokeness — along with its sacrament, DEI — were something inflicted on U.S. corporations like Boeing. Nobody wanted DEI.
Investment giants Vanguard and Blackrock, which largely led the DEI revolution, have a lot to answer for. Did they have ulterior motives for undermining corporate America? Motives unrelated to profit?
Who benefits from the controlled demolition and bureaucratization of corporate America? Are Vanguard and Blackrock working for America’s enemies? Just asking.
Quite a few less-government tied businesses that tried the woke hiring idea have dropped it.
Maybe it’s just more difficult when the libs of the dem party write your paycheck.
Which “DEI hires,” specifically, led to this problem for Boeing?
If you see tracks of a lion, you don’t need to know; “which lion specifically”. Get over your denial snowflake.
So: you have nothing.
Ooops. Cats outta the bag on which “philosophy” can actually do the job required. And, it ain’t the utopian everybody equal thing. Now, how will Boing-Boing handle the setback? Probably just layoff more workers. Just sayin’.
I’m sure there are other professions that are similar (medical, for instance), but aviation requires attention to detail, the ability to read and understand complex data, knowledge of federal aviation rules and regulations, and an aversion to taking shortcuts. If a person can get a job or position or gain advancement and promotion without dedicating one’s self to these principles, dangerous results can be expected. DEI doesn’t help anyone.
The real shame of all of this dei crap is that real people will die because of the low standards encouraged by the ideology of the left. And they, the leftists, know it. Plane crashes and astronauts stranded in space are just in-your-face manifestations of how useless that dei philosophy truly is. Except for those who profit from it. Others die, they add to their bank accounts. Just sayin’.
The Electoral College is DEI for red states.
There really is a lot you have absolutely no clue about, isn’t there?
Nothing wrong with the Electoral Collage Pinhead just whing and pathetic fools like you
Prove me wrong. Use your words.
I don’t think DEI existed when the Constitution was written nor would it have been influential if it had.
There were asylums.
Go play Trick or Treat Smell my Feet