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Welp, that's that. I wonder how this will affect future flights. Will NASA require an extra test flight prior to Crew-1? If so, Boeing will be one rocket short, as all of the Atlas Vs have already been allocated.
No way Starliner flies again. This whole thing has been a gigantic fiasco from day one. I hope they pull the plug and spend the money on programs with a future.
I disagree, they have so much time and money investment into starliner, it has to fly again. They can't throw out 15 years of development.
Sunk cost fallacy. Fuck Boeing, why should the government keep funding this?
It's not a usual cost-plus contract, to my knowledge, the government hasn't funded it beyond the initial half billion. Boeing is taking a bath on this capsule development, needs the crew contracts to recoup, and that's why I don't believe they will abandon it.
This whole thing makes me feel so sad.
I don't know. Part of me feels a bit of glee that Boeing is having to foot the bill for their own incompetence.