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Part of the benefit of having Starliner and SpX is redundancy. Having multiple vendors to choose from/have compete each other/use as backups if one is grounded,

Part of the benefit of having Starliner and SpX is redundancy. Having multiple vendors to choose from/have compete each other/use as backups if one is grounded, is a large part of the point. Having anyone, including Musk, have control over both defeats the purpose of redundancy.

lupusreal 2y ago
Soyuz already provides redundancy, albeit not exactly commercial competition. The whole point of the ride sharing agreement with Russia is to prevent both countries from having the other rely on a single vehicle, to ensure the station can continue to operate if either America or Russia is grounded. Anyway, Boeing isn't a serious competitor to SpaceX and the money should be given to another instead. This should have been done several years ago, but as they say, the second best time to plant an apple tree is now.
JumpCrisscross 2y ago
> the benefit of having Starliner and SpX is redundancy Starliner provides zero redundancy. It doesn’t work. If it did, it can’t spin up quickly enough. If it could, it has a limited number of shots for having been designed for an obsolete launch vehicle