Boeing finally completes SLS core stage, packs it for Mississippi tests

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From Ars Technica:
"On Wednesday, Boeing moved the completed core stage of NASA's Space Launch System rocket from the Michoud Assembly Facility onto the space agency's Pegasus Barge. When weather conditions are favorable, the barge will carry the 64-meter rocket from the rocket factory near New Orleans to the Stennis Space Center in southern Mississippi."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/01 ... ppi-tests/

Just lumbering along, burning up money ...

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[GCoyote]

Boeing has a management/culture problem it will have to overcome under its new CEO.

[notFritzArgelander]

Boeing has a management/culture problem it will have to overcome under its new CEO.

It might be a bit worse at Boeing, true. In general there is a broad problem across corporations. A culture of productive management has been replaced by extractive management. There are several ironies here which are off topic, though.....

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Here's another article from SpaceFlightNow.com:
"First SLS core stage departs factory"

https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/01/08/p ... s-factory/

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[Lowjiber]

Given Boeing's recent penchant for poor quality, someone from NASA had better climb up on it with crescent wrench and check all of the bolts before they light the fuse.