The Starliner drama has been a major setback for Boeing’s space ambitions, adding to years of struggle to get the capsule off the ground and keep up with rival company SpaceX.
It’s stronger than aluminium, as well as easier to manufacture and work in less-than-ideal conditions than carbon fiber. Useful traits when your end goal is to build a whole fuckton of the biggest, most capable, fully reusable rockets in history.
Don’t worry, if SS ends up being a failure for any reason they’ll blame him, but if it succeeds they’ll be silent or say it was dumb luck or he had nothing to do with it.
It’s stronger than aluminium, as well as easier to manufacture and work in less-than-ideal conditions than carbon fiber. Useful traits when your end goal is to build a whole fuckton of the biggest, most capable, fully reusable rockets in history.
Don’t worry, if SS ends up being a failure for any reason they’ll blame him, but if it succeeds they’ll be silent or say it was dumb luck or he had nothing to do with it.