I wonder if Starliner will be operational before the ISS is decommissioned. NASA should have picked Dreamchaser instead.
While I think Sierra Space would have done better than Boeing, they seem closer culturally, organizationally, operationally, etc to Lockheed than they are to SpaceX.
Probably, but it’s looking increasingly unlikely that they will fit in all 6 flights.
As for Dreamchaser, well, hindsight is 20:20, and Dreamchaser has had its own share of delays. Would development have been faster with increased funding from NASA? Probably, but its difficult to know by how much. Its easy to imagine a parallel universe where NASA is getting flack for choosing Dreamchaser instead of going with the “reliable Boeing option”.
I hope Dreamchaser flies soon though, and that a crewed variant is eventually developed.
Good thing for NASA that the Starliner contract is fixed-price, not cost-plus :)
Yeah but boeing is in such decipit condition that taxyper will have to pay to fix it either way because free market capitalism 🤡
They cant kill their way out of this problem either