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And money well worth spent IMHO even 10 times that amount to increase our understanding of the universe say compared to spending on Twitter. Orchestrating a very complicated remote deployment 1.5 million miles from earth with no do overs deserves some kudos.
In what world does the federal taxpayer fund Twitter?
One thing that will be memory holed because of the ultimate successful launch is just the MASSIVE overpromising on schedule and budget. Nearly criminal, in fact. Billions of dollars wasted and countless valuable missions that had to be sacrificed. The team (I think under new management) eventually delivered a successful launch, so no one will remember. I do think the final team who got it turned around and actually l…
One thing that will be memory holed because of the ultimate successful launch is just the MASSIVE overpromising on schedule and budget. Nearly criminal, in fact. Billions of dollars wasted and countless valuable missions that had to be sacrificed. The team (I think under new management) eventually delivered a successful launch, so no one will remember. I do think the final team who got it turned around and actually l…
In this line of thought, in about 15 years, Boeing employees will get recognized for the incredible work on Starliner capsule. Wait, at this rate, it'll be closer to 25 years. But as the saying goes, good things come to those who wait and wait and wait and bloat the budget
One thing that will be memory holed because of the ultimate successful launch is just the MASSIVE overpromising on schedule and budget. Nearly criminal, in fact. Billions of dollars wasted and countless valuable missions that had to be sacrificed. The team (I think under new management) eventually delivered a successful launch, so no one will remember. I do think the final team who got it turned around and actually l…
>One thing that will be memory holed because of the ultimate successful launch is just the MASSIVE overpromising on schedule and budget. All the bureaucrats and contractors who are part of the revolving door will remember it and not in a way that is good for us.
Managers and stakeholders will point out how JWST means that cost and schedule overruns don't matter and will soon be forgotten, no matter how large... As long as the project launches and operates. IMHO, this is bad. We'd be much better off cancelling highly underperforming projects early and reorienting resources towards competently run projects. Instead, we more often tend to throw good money after bad. A problem that has echoes in the US's infrastructure cost woes.
Do they get to take a victory lap around moon?
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It's somewhat amusing to read this criticism on a website primarily populated by people in the software industry, which is hardly a paragon of accurate estimation and forecasting. Proportionate excesses (i.e. 10X over-budget) may not be the norm, but they are hardly rare, and they are always for projects far more prosaic than launching a telescope into space.
I work in the aerospace industry, not software.