https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/06/nasa-just-bought-all-the-seats-needed-for-space-station-crews-into-2030/
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Watching that Starliner launch was like watching an old 1960s Apollo launch. Like a 100 people manually looking at data, making decisions and calling go or no go. Almost didn't make orbit again and almost couldn't dock.. Such an obsolete approach compared to the fully autonomous, computer monitored, streamlined and efficient SpaceX approach.
It is criminal that taxpayer money can be spent on this expensive, non-reusable, obsolete launch system that relies on Russian RD180 engines. Somehow I don't think SpaceX is very concerned...except perhaps for the endless Boeing/Government corruption they have had to contend with since they were founded.
Boeing will be forever hated even after they are gone because of their greed that led to loss of life and gross management incompetence that destroyed one of the best companies in the world.
This was a given. The military and nasa don’t want to go to a single source supplier they want a competitive bid process it’s the only reason Boeing was given work. Boeing never wins any large defense or space contracts.
Yup and SpaceX just celebrated their 10 year anniversary of successful missions to ISS.
NASA has made it very clear they only want a second launch option for redundancy. Given how high the Boeing seat cost is compared to the reusable rocket launch SpaceX approach and seat cost, NASA and Congress would look even more corrupt then they currently do to use Boeing or ULA.