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After another Boeing letdown, NASA isn’t ready to buy more Starliner missions (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 week ago by llamacoffee@lemmy.world to c/spaceflight@sh.itjust.works

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[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yes, except that leaves us with one option for sending people into space again.

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What do you mean "again"? You mean still.

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When we had the shuttle. We decided we didn't want to be in that situation again, but we still are.

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Thats what i said.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

And one plane manufacturer.

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not really, Soyuz still exists. And it's not like Crew Dragon is unreliable or really all that bad.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Until Elon decides to use it as leverage to get something he wants.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

I would hope Gwynne Shotwell + the U.S. government would be enough to prevent that from happening...