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|    Snidely to All    |
|    Re: Time to market ?    |
|    09 Aug 21 20:51:16    |
      From: snidely.too@gmail.com              On Monday, Snidely yelped out that:       > Thus spake JF Mezei:       >       >> SpaceX delivered Dragon 1 quickly. Dragon2 had some delays, but nothing       >> very dramatic, and they even had time to do cosmetic stuff like       >> futuristic interior and fashionable launch/entry suits.       >>       >> Meanwhile, Boeing Starliner and SLS are taking years to get their act       >> together.       >       > Doing the suits was a whole different line on the GANTT charts, running in       > parallel.       >       > Even Elon notes that developing Dragon and developing Starship are very       > different ... with people on board from the beginning, you can't be blowing       > things up. Also, Dragon is smaller than CST100, with about half the crew,       > which obviously means that the propulsion system has to be bigger.              Now that's an example of clear writing. /Starliner's/ propulsion       system has to be bigger.              > Where Boeing most obviously screwed things up was in software quality       > control, which is part of what bit them with the 737Max.       >       > /dps              --       Who, me? And what lacuna?              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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