You could argue that landing on the Moon and even Mars is an unnecessary risk, or human spaceflight as a whole. The whole moon programme and the space shuttle

You could argue that landing on the Moon and even Mars is an unnecessary risk, or human spaceflight as a whole. The whole moon programme and the space shuttle were extremely high risk by today's standards, but the moon programme was to prove that the US could beat the USSR, and the space shuttle was to transport spy satellites and build the ISS. But Starliner should really be nearly zero risk with that small goal of docking and drop back home.