llamacoffee@lemmy.worldM to SpaceflightEnglish · 6 months 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.comllamacoffee@lemmy.worldM to SpaceflightEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square15fedilink
minus-squaremipadaitu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·6 months agoYes, except that leaves us with one option for sending people into space again.
minus-squarePeppycitolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 months agoWhat do you mean “again”? You mean still.
minus-squaremipadaitu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·6 months agoWhen we had the shuttle. We decided we didn’t want to be in that situation again, but we still are.
minus-squareLostXOR@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 months agoNot really, Soyuz still exists. And it’s not like Crew Dragon is unreliable or really all that bad.
minus-squareEm Adespoton@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·6 months agoUntil Elon decides to use it as leverage to get something he wants.
minus-squarethreelonmusketeersMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 months 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…