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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
Never worked anything but commercial, so I cannot comment on any of this. What years were these?
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Regarding ISS...this was mid-90s. Boeing was the lead integrator on ISS. I was working for McDonnell Douglas on the Spacelab program (managed by NASA out of Marshall Space Flight Center). Boeing on was also at MSFC (and the Jetplex). Boeing had lost some critical Space Station equipment (
lost it) - and the ensuing investigations shone such a bad light on them in HSV, they were given a zero award fee on their contract (very rare in those days). The merger took place right during that timeframe and the head of our Spacelab program was moved into position as the head of the Boeing ISS contract as a result.
After we merged, all of the McDonnell Douglas personnel in HSV were moved out to the Boeing Jetplex facilities, so I worked elbow-to-elbow with legacy Boeing folks for the next 10 years or so.