Well, I'm sad to report that that old saw is true.

You should never meet your heroes because you discover they have feet of clay.

When I was growing up, NASA was one of my heroes and Boeing was too.

And now NASA and Boeing are working together and to be perfectly honest with you folks, I'm not impressed.

Hi everybody, I'm Bill Little here with Steve Green and Scott Ott.

And this particular right angle is about the star liner that the Boeing

company has made for NASA. It was supposed to launch as we record this on Tuesday. On Monday,

it was scrubbed for a week. It's next scheduled for Friday, again, as we record this. I suspect

it'll be scrubbed again after that. Gentlemen, I have to be very careful about how I put this,

because not only do I not want to be misunderstood by other people, I just want to be clear about this

internally. I certainly would not, for the slightest moment, wish any harm upon that crew

or anybody else involved with this mission at all. But having given

the serious thought, I don't want this to succeed. I don't think it's going to succeed. And even if it

does, I don't want it to. And the reason is because this combination of what NASA has become

and what Boeing has become is a combination of two agencies that were once

committed to excellence and for a long, long, long time have become standing armies of bureaucracies

that cut corners and got people killed. And I don't think they deserve to succeed, not just

from a moral point of view, but from a progress point of view.

Steve, let's start with you.

You can see here a split screen of the Boeing Starliner compared to the SpaceX Dragon capsule.

The Dragon capsule looks like it was made in the 21st century, and last time I checked, that's where we're living.

The Boeing Starliner looks like it was assembled from

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