No Blacks on the Moon After All?

by David Sims

YOU MIGHT REMEMBER that NASA’s Artemis Project was supposed to put a Black and a woman on the Moon? It might not happen after all. The builder of the SLS rocket used by the project, Boeing, is being sued for stealing the intellectual property of Wilson Aerospace (the lawsuit’s plaintiff).

Wilson Aerospace, a Colorado-based company, is suing Boeing for a wide range of claims concerning allegedly stolen intellectual property over the last two decades. At issue is a specific tool, known as a “Fluid Fitting Torque Device,” that Wilson developed and Boeing said it needed to attach four main engines to the Space Launch System rocket. The complaint was filed in a Seattle, Washington federal court on June 7.

The small family-run tools company’s lawsuit centers around multiple custom-designed tools that Wilson says it created for Boeing. Boeing, in turn, “rewarded Wilson’s efforts by brazenly stealing” the IP related to multiple devices, the complaint says. Wilson filed suit in a Washington federal court Wednesday.

The scope of the damages is “hard to quantify,” according to one of the company’s lawyers, Pete Flowers. Still, Boeing’s actions have hurt Wilson to the tune of “hundreds of millions of dollars,” he told CNBC.

Wilson’s complaint alleges that its tools — used for NASA projects including the International Space Station and its Space Launch Systems moon rocket — helped Boeing win billions in contract awards and fees from the government. Wilson also alleges that the counterfeit version of the tools that Boeing made led to leaks on the ISS and the SLS — and “put lives at risk,” including the lives of astronauts.

The company brought 10 claims against Boeing, including claims of copyright infringement, misappropriation and theft of trade secrets, and fraud.

In a statement to CNBC, a Boeing spokesperson said that Wilson’s “lawsuit is rife with inaccuracies and omissions,” but declined to share specifics when asked.

According to Wilson Aerospace, “Boeing’s attempt to replicate [the Colorado-based Wilson Aerospace’s] technology was the cause of leaks aboard the International Space Station and was the cause of last year’s hydrogen leaks during repeated attempts to fuel and launch NASA’s Space Launch System rocket for its Artemis 1 mission.” In a press statement, Wilson Aerospace founder and president David Wilson Jr. added that “Boeing has not only stolen our intellectual property and damaged our company’s reputation, but has used the technology incorrectly and at the expense of astronauts’ safety, which is beyond despicable.”

That’s the kind of behavior you expect from people who want to put Negroids on the Moon.

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