Boeing employees ‘embarrassed’ as Elon Musk’s SpaceX tasked with saving stranded astronauts

NASA has announced Elon Musk’s SpaceX will be tasked with saving two stranded astronauts, leaving Boeing employees “humiliated”.

The two astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, have been trapped on the International Space Station (ISS) since June 5.

Wilmore and Williams were flown to the ISS by the Boeing Starliner space capsule, but the aircraft leaked helium and had problematic thrusters.

Those issues have led the astronauts’ eight-day mission to turn into a six-month wait until SpaceX’s Crew Dragon can rescue them.

An anonymous Boeing employee has revealed NASA’s decision to hire the airliner’s rival, SpaceX, is “shameful”.

Boeing has faced heavy backlash over the last few months due to numerous commercial flight incidents.

“We have had so many embarrassments lately, we’re under a microscope. This just made it, like, 100 times worse,” they said.

“We hate SpaceX. We talk s–t about them all the time, and now they’re bailing us out. It’s shameful. I’m embarrassed, I’m horrified.”