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BOEING vs NASA
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this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2024
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Apollo 13 budget: ~ $2.8B in 2023 usd
Boeing 737 MAX total program budget (excluding older 737 models): > $180B
Why are you comparing the budget of one single spacecraft with an entire production run of a model of airplane? That's not a reasonable comparison.
Because Boeing should have economy of scale benefits by selling $180B worth of aircraft, while Apollo 13 was a bespoke, single-use, cutting-edge spacecraft on a much smaller budget.
Wasn't it exactly the same as most of the other apollo craft?
Yeah its too fair to boing because they are not sending shit tp fucking space
Modern airplanes are also have crazy complicated systems compared to the Apollo program.
But also the MAX eas supotti be a quick and easy upgrade to the existing 737-800, so clearly theu fucked up along the way
Hahahaha! Well nailed!
Because this is Lemmy
https://youtu.be/URoVKPVDKPU?si=6wAXf8ckCXTPb_UY
Wendover's video on Boeing - it's easy to see how costs spiral under their model, plus it's nice to see Sam - probably one of the biggest aviation geeks around - put the boot into Boeing.
A good waste of 20+ mins.
Sounds risky, might break a foot, he should've used a brick instead.
The bricks fell off due to a software error.
Not to mention Apollo program invented a lot of new stuff never before seen, let alone used.
That explains how Boeing could afford 22 characters while NASA had to make do with 3.