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What does this have to do with anything? Are NASA or Boeing using Agile for any project related to this mission?

No. Not at all. SpaceX is much closer to “agile” than Boeing or NASA, and I don’t think their success is a strike against agile.

GP just seems to have beef with agile and seems to be trying to loop any random failure, whether or not agile was involved, into the discussion.

Here is a past HN thread discussing exactly this. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23856590

My beef is with selling incompetence to plan as agile… not with agile done properly (which is rare).