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

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/spaceflight

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] Peppycito 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months 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 2 points 5 months ago

Thats what i said.

[–] clay_pidgin 6 points 5 months ago

And one plane manufacturer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] threelonmusketeers 5 points 5 months ago

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