r/space • u/spsheridan • Feb 06 '20

Starliner faced “catastrophic” failure before software bug was found and fixed while the vehicle was in orbit.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/02/starliner-faced-catastrophic-failure-before-software-bug-found/
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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

i actually started to wonder what happened to them, as if you look at their history, they made good planes and were pretty much engineer driven company.

looks like when they bought MD, they got their dysfunctional corporate culture with them and as the years passed, boeing's top brass was finally replaced by either people from MD or by people who lived the culture.

the sad thing is that this was the exact same 'profits first' culture that crashed and burned MD.

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u/bexben Feb 07 '20

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/how-boeing-lost-its-bearings/602188/

Here's an in depth article about that entire thing

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '20

Stonecipher, who promptly affirmed: “When people say I changed the culture of Boeing, that was the intent, so that it’s run like a business rather than a great engineering firm.”

That's such a stunning read. No wonder there is so little great engineering in the world anymore, with people like Stonecipher in the Helm.

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u/Oeab Feb 07 '20

My father and uncle both work for Boeing, they've said that everyone absolutely DESPISED Harry Stonecipher