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A new report finds Boeing’s rockets are built with an unqualified work force (arstechnica.com)

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[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

Even if you have very good insurance for your rocket parts, a few completely innocent mistakes by your workers is going to totally fuck up your finances.

That doesn't even include being $1.6 Billion over budget on a project that is extremely public, with a competitor that received half the government funding you did, and completed their project years ago with over a dozen successful flights already? A project that may have just stranded its first two pilots in space on its first manned flight?