From reporter Michael Sheetz:

“Boeing pushed back the flight schedule of its Starliner capsule by several months, the company said on a conference call with reporters Wednesday."

That sentence holds true this week – but the problem is, I wrote it five years ago.

At the time, Boeing and SpaceX were seen as neck-and-neck in a race to finish development of their respective crewed spacecraft and be the first to fly NASA astronauts. Even then, each company had faced its share of delays, but NASA estimated flight tests were months apart. Until they weren’t.

Fast forward to the present. Boeing and SpaceX each won contracts to fly six operational missions with astronauts. The latter is poised to finish nearly all of its six before the former even flies a crewed demo mission.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/30/investing-in-space-boeings-got-to-get-going.html

Such a shame to see this. I really wanted to see Boeing succeed, compete and make use of their Starliner in the commercial space.

Me too. I know there is a lot of "Boeing bad" in all of Reddit, but it would have been very beneficial to have them actually be a solid competitor to SpaceX which currently holds a near monopoly in space. Having a competitor in this case is a good thing because it would force both companies to be on their toes and find new ways to incentivize.

Ahhh yes the prime example for why MBAs shouldn't be allowed to touch companies like this.

I'm sorry, you aren't allowed to post this until you've gotten clearance from legal, HR, and we'll need to toss it up to the C-suite. Honestly it's probably just best if you don't think outside of the box again and focus on your metrics. Synergy.

Every single time an MBA manages an engineering company they run it into the ground.

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> I know there is a lot of "Boeing bad" in all of Reddit

Well, it's for shit like this, the company squandering its talent pools and pedigree with goofy management and stumbling behavior. If they can't pull a major turnaround they're going to represent sludge that slows down the whole industry, simply by virtue of their size and sprawl.

Oh, they've been quite successful at what they want to do. They have successfully looted the company quite thoroughly. Boeing had spent nearly a century building up a strong company with a strong brand that was recognized and valued across the world. After the MBAs took over they looted everything, they trashed the brand for short term gains, they funneled all of the cash on hand into the pockets of shareholders through dividends and stock buybacks. They've enriched many already hyper wealthy folks by many tens of billions of dollars, and all it took was destruction of a world class engineering institution and a few hundred lives.

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Not how it works. You cant ruin a company for the benefit of its owners lmao.

You dont think SpaceX has MBAs working for them?

Let’s hope he doesn’t get flagged for plagiarism if he has to write the same article over and over :-/

I want to see them succeed too because more access to space is better for humanity. They hold the keys to their own success though and sadly have been struggling more than anyone thought they would.

Working for yes. The issue is when the entire management team is MBAs. An engineering company needs engineers in upper management too.