ars TECHNICA by Eric Berger - 4/18/2024

"Boeing is reviewing and adjusting current staffing levels."

On Thursday senior Boeing officials leading the Space Launch System program, including David Dutcher and Steve Snell, convened an all-hands meeting for the more than 1,000 employees who work on the rocket.

According to two people familiar with the meeting, the officials announced that there would be a significant number of layoffs and reassignments of people working on the program. They offered a handful of reasons for the cuts, including the fact that timelines for NASA's Artemis lunar missions that will use the SLS rocket are slipping to the right.

Later on Thursday, in a statement provided to Ars, a Boeing spokesperson confirmed the cuts: "Due to external factors unrelated to our program performance, Boeing is reviewing and adjusting current staffing levels on the Space Launch System program."

Better late than never?

For nearly a decade and a half, Boeing has led development of the core stage of the massive SLS rocket that NASA intends to use to launch the Orion spacecraft for its crewed Moon missions.

The contract has been lucrative for Boeing and subject to considerable criticism over the years for its largesse, as NASA has spent tens of billions of dollars developing a rocket that reuses Space Shuttle main engines and other elements. Also, the rocket was originally supposed to make its debut in late 2016 or 2017 but did not actually fly for the first time until November 2022. And NASA's inspector general has characterized Boeing's management of the SLS rocket program at times as "poor."

More: https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/amid-schedule-uncertainty-boeing-will-shed-workers-on-sls-rocket-program/

They have DJs at TV stations?  (BTW, I have worked at both NPR Radio and PBS TV at some point.)

Okay. NPR then.  We would be a hit. Feeling all of 68 and going on fifteen.....

I have three occasions in my lifetime to point to. It can be done. But not chasing after shiny things like political messiahs and such. It looks more like the TEA Party. That's what will do it.

Of course I'm all for the TEA Party, and it's going to take a massive majority of like-minded conservatives coming together and not taking no for an answer, nor compromising their positions. That's always been the avenue that conservatives headed.

I can't help but to reflect as to what happened to those who stood up for what they believed in on J6.  Some were not insurrectionists but conservatives who are still confined and a couple still without a trial date.  They have been made an example of. IOW if you don't go along with the left, you will be dealt with in a way so that you will not succeed.  Times are very different now.  Times are very troubling with our rights being tossed out the window in order for a particular political party to prevail.

The rule of law is being trampled upon and we have a very corrupt DOJ. I don't see that there is any remedy anymore at the ballot box, so how then do conservatives prevail against the liberal stranglehold around this Republic?

I certainly don't have any answers. Conservatives in the Senate and House are very few.  The 'climate' of this country has drastically changed and it isn't for the better.

Include ALL of Corporation for Public Broadcasting.  PBS is no better than NPR.  Leave it to the GOPe to only do half measures.

Brother, Lets apply for a DJ job at our local PBS station.

Shoo ------

Shoo fly.  Get to your Hamas support group/rally in DC.