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If Boeing wants out after this debacle, maybe Blue Origin would be interested in buying the program/IP? Starliner is launching on ULA rockets (Atlas today, Vul
by mrpippy 2y ago
If Boeing wants out after this debacle, maybe Blue Origin would be interested in buying the program/IP?
Starliner is launching on ULA rockets (Atlas today, Vulcan likely in the future) anyway, and BE is rumored to be purchasing them too.
- thedman9052 2y agoULA is one thing, they are highly successful and established. Starliner is a lemon. I think it would be better for them to develop a capsule based on their own New Shepard vehicle.
- __d 2y agoI think it's mostly a question of how NASA assesses the vehicle: is it going to be an endless series of patches on a fundamentally flawed base? Or is it somewhere over 50% done, with some software cleanup, thruster fixes, and some decent QA and then good to go? Rejigging New Shepard with appropriate docking, heat shielding, maneuvering thrusters, life support, power, cooling, etc, etc, etc, is a huge project. Certainly it's a head start, but I think it'd be a ground-up redesign with that as experience and maybe a starting point for beefed-up parts.