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Nah, you have to have actual skills to be an astronaut.
They must have some skills if they rose to the level of Boeing executive, right? They wouldn’t put a bunch of useless MBAs who don’t care about safety in charge of a critical aerospace company.
Laika's greatest skill was being a good girl. While I don't think Boeing exec's can compete with that, I think they've got enough skills to staff the launch vehicle if Laika could do it.
They've launched dogs, monkeys, and whatnot before.
Sure, those were still way more skilled than Boeing executives, but there's also uncrewed launches, so that's no excuse.
Call them payload or cargo or ballast instead of astronauts if you want, what counts is launching the fuckers into space and (hopefully) not bringing them back.
Do you?
I think ShittyBeattlesFCPres is onto something. Let's find that out.
I agree 💯