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It would be great if this thing ever left the ground with people in it but frankly I think we desperately need a third option. Crew Dragon is great and Starlin
by MeImCounting 2y ago
It would be great if this thing ever left the ground with people in it but frankly I think we desperately need a third option.
Crew Dragon is great and Starliner might be someday as well but I dont think thats enough redundancy for national security reasons or for general crewed access to orbit.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> Starliner might be someday as well Starliner can only launch 7 or eight times, due to the Atlas V, the rocket it’s been mated to, having already been EOL’d. Those launches have already been scheduled. So even with Starliner there is zero redundancy if Dragon hits a snag.
- throwoutway 2y agoIt's going to launch on top of SLS going forward, which has its own one off bespoke design problem of its own
- asadotzler 2y agoHA!
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> It's going to launch on top of SLS going forward Source? It isn’t trivial re-engineering and re-certifying Starliner for SLS. (Also, Starliner is designed to go to LEO. It’s a shuttle, not a spaceship. Isn’t SLS too powerful and expensive?)