Boeing and Lockheed Martin merged their spacelaunch divisions into ULA. Atlas V worked well, Delta IV worked well, Vulcan is working well now too. It was a shotgun wedding but it worked out well overall.
But it was only the space *launch* divisions. The space capsule manufacturing was kept with Boeing making Starliner and Lockheed Martin making Orion. At least Orion has only been a partial failure not the spectacular disaster of Starliner.
Cancel Starliner. Merge the capsule divisions into ULA. Find some transferable skills and common components or production lines to make Orion suck a bit less. It’s too late to save the billions they’ve already spent on Starliner but this could salvage one useful crew capsule out of the mess.
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At this point they should just cancel it.
Boeing and Lockheed Martin merged their spacelaunch divisions into ULA. Atlas V worked well, Delta IV worked well, Vulcan is working well now too. It was a shotgun wedding but it worked out well overall.
But it was only the space *launch* divisions. The space capsule manufacturing was kept with Boeing making Starliner and Lockheed Martin making Orion. At least Orion has only been a partial failure not the spectacular disaster of Starliner.
Cancel Starliner. Merge the capsule divisions into ULA. Find some transferable skills and common components or production lines to make Orion suck a bit less. It’s too late to save the billions they’ve already spent on Starliner but this could salvage one useful crew capsule out of the mess.