The other thing is that for this area, Boeing the corporation is mostly a brand. The Apollo and Shuttle engineers are overwhelmingly retired or, err, passed. At

The other thing is that for this area, Boeing the corporation is mostly a brand. The Apollo and Shuttle engineers are overwhelmingly retired or, err, passed. At this point, no company in America really has an edge with experienced employees with designing and qualifying a new human-rated space vehicle. SpaceX and Boeing were really pretty close to the same starting line. And really SpaceX had a general experience edge in terms of coming off of designing a lot of wholly new and successfully working non-human rated space gear. Boeing has experience in maintaining working space gear and process, but it's not the same scale of new product and process.