@[email protected]M to SpaceflightEnglish • 13 days agoAfter another Boeing letdown, NASA isn’t ready to buy more Starliner missionsarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up179arrow-down10
arrow-up179arrow-down1external-linkAfter another Boeing letdown, NASA isn’t ready to buy more Starliner missionsarstechnica.com@[email protected]M to SpaceflightEnglish • 13 days agomessage-square15fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•13 days agoYes, except that leaves us with one option for sending people into space again.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•13 days agoWhen we had the shuttle. We decided we didn’t want to be in that situation again, but we still are.
minus-squareLostXORlinkfedilink3•13 days agoNot really, Soyuz still exists. And it’s not like Crew Dragon is unreliable or really all that bad.
minus-squareEm AdespotonlinkfedilinkEnglish11•13 days agoUntil Elon decides to use it as leverage to get something he wants.
minus-squarethreelonmusketeersMlinkEnglish5•13 days agoI would hope Gwynne Shotwell + the U.S. government would be enough to prevent that from happening…
Yes, except that leaves us with one option for sending people into space again.
And one plane manufacturer.
What do you mean “again”? You mean still.
When we had the shuttle. We decided we didn’t want to be in that situation again, but we still are.
Thats what i said.
Not really, Soyuz still exists. And it’s not like Crew Dragon is unreliable or really all that bad.
Until Elon decides to use it as leverage to get something he wants.
I would hope Gwynne Shotwell + the U.S. government would be enough to prevent that from happening…