Now Boeing seems in my opinion to have been filled with incompetents. The most recent is sending a launch into the wrong orbit. As the NY Times notes:
The Starliner test flight, which was intended to test the automated
systems and did not carry any astronauts, ended up in the wrong orbit.
The mission will now be cut short, without docking at the International
Space Station and likely delaying plans that are already a couple of
years behind schedule....The first test of Starliner, built by
Boeing’s space and defense division, was postponed multiple times this
year. The Atlas 5 performed as designed, placing the capsule on an
elliptical trajectory. The capsule itself was to make a final maneuver
that would shift the orbit from elliptical to circular and allow it to
meet up with the International Space Station on Saturday. But
somehow, the spacecraft’s clock was set to the wrong time, and a flawed
thruster burn pushed the capsule into the wrong orbit.
Yep, indeed, they set the clock wrong! Can't blame the Chinese for this one, nor the Russians, nor the Ukrainians.
First, in my opinion you must rid the company of its current management, hire competent people, and then manage the program. We did that more than half a century ago. Why not now!
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