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WTF is wrong with NASA?
2019-12-21
Okay... This AM Boeing launches their version of the commercial manned spacecraft to ISS. The computers go insane and start maneuvering like ISS is right there when it is far away and use up most of their fuel while ignoring frantic messages from Earth to quit. That's cool... BUT THEN...
NASA in it's infinite bureaucratic wisdom decides to halt SpaceX's pending manned flight too and buy lots more seats on Soyuz! Seriously! WTF is wrong with NASA?
[NASAspaceflight.COM] After a gorgeous and 100% successful launch atop the Atlas V rocket from United Launch Alliance, Boeing’s uncrewed Starliner crew capsule suffered a mission-shortening failure just 30 minutes into its inaugural flight.

A Mission Event Timer issue resulted in Starliner burning a significantly larger amount of propellant than planned and forced Boeing and NASA to abort the planned rendezvous and docking with the International Space Station and opt instead for a landing at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, No Earlier Than Sunday morning (22 December) roughly 48 hours after launch.
Posted by:3dc

#27  Yes. NASA is the customer. They didn't have anyone looking at that code?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-12-21 17:33  

#26  After years of focus on Global Warming who would have thought they'd lose their edge...
Posted by: ruprecht   2019-12-21 16:47  

#25  So like I said earlier. They are an engineering company or a company that wants to be where Bath House runs. It really can't be both.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-12-21 14:49  

#24  #20 "If boeing can't do it - NOBODY WILL!!!"

This is what it's all about.

And it will cost us big time unless things change.
Posted by: charger   2019-12-21 14:01  

#23  Use the housing algo that was made.by someone from china that was made to fail as per.wired magazine play.it safe.please.your.masters!
Posted by: Clairong Glaper5652   2019-12-21 13:54  

#22  A guy just went to jail for sabotaging an airliner in his role as a flight mechanic. No chance something like that could happen anywhere else in the food chain. No sir...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-12-21 13:45  

#21  There was a plumbing outfit where I used to live that had a radio commercial tagline: "Who Can? Ameri-can!" Maybe diversity is a bit oversold these days? Chang? Gupta? Anybody?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-12-21 13:42  

#20  "If boeing can't do it - NOBODY WILL!!!"
Posted by: CrazyFool   2019-12-21 13:28  

#19  ðŸ¤£
#13 has a rival for Snark O' the Day
Posted by: Lex   2019-12-21 13:28  

#18  UTM-6
Damned metric clocks!
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-12-21 13:26  

#17  Rejects from the Redskins' cheerleader tryouts?

Bengals cheerleaders, preparing for the 2019 season.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2019-12-21 13:07  

#16  13# for the win. Probably right assessment too. Maybe not five binders, at least one in reality.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-12-21 12:53  

#15  They can't keep a line or high step but they're actually not hard on the eyes. Rejects from the Redskins' cheerleader tryouts?
Posted by: Lex   2019-12-21 12:48  

#14  ðŸ˜€

Snark O' the Day!
Posted by: Lex   2019-12-21 12:46  

#13  I bet the specifications for the panty hose ran five 3" binders at least.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-12-21 12:45  

#12  Actually I'm kinda impressed by the ... "Rockettes"? The "High-Beams"?

Didn't know NASA's program managers had it in 'em...
Posted by: Lex   2019-12-21 12:37  

#11  And people make fun of Microsoft's marketing - not that it isn't a fat target...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-12-21 12:21  

#10  
Posted by: 3dc   2019-12-21 11:11  

#9  Some of these errors seem to me (as a pretty experienced coder/architect) to be almost comically inept

I know. Almost on par with the Fallout 76 coders.
Posted by: DarthVader   2019-12-21 10:28  

#8  Gay Barry reset NASA's primary focus to be 'moslem outreach'

so you get what you pay for i guess
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136   2019-12-21 09:24  

#7  What's wrong with NASA?

Follow the money.
Posted by: AlanC   2019-12-21 08:55  

#6  So the first launch failed. So what. How many Saturn rocket burned up on the pad, and more recently, how many space X rockets burned up or failed. Space flight is complicated. They will get it right,
Posted by: 49 Pan   2019-12-21 07:38  

#5  Those who can do. Those who can't teach. Those who can't teach administrate.

NASA came about because Eisenhower didn't want to use the military to run all of the early space (rocket) programs.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-12-21 07:25  

#4  Some of these errors seem to me (as a pretty experienced coder/architect) to be almost comically inept.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-12-21 06:23  

#3  "Checking code is racist"
Posted by: Lex   2019-12-21 04:54  

#2  Diversity?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB   2019-12-21 02:57  

#1  for reasons Boeing engineers do not yet understand, Starliner’s Mission Event Timer clock malfunctioned

Would those engineers possibly be cheapo, second-rate, poorly-managed foreign software engineers?

Contractors? Offshore? Or just H1Bs hired through body shops?
Posted by: Lex   2019-12-21 01:34  

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