Boeing’s Starliner is considered four years behind Elon Musk’s SpaceX Crew Dragon, which has already carried 50 astronauts, Russian cosmonauts and civilians on 13 orbital flights since 2020, all but one to the space station. But Williams and Wilmore say the Starliner is safer and more capable than the competition, with multiple upgrades.
https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/long-awaited-starliner-launch-breaks-a-six-decade-draught/
I measure “safer” by how many times a capsule series gets their people back and forth from space without a mishap and or death!
I’m sure Dragon will be upgraded and made safer the more data comes in.
But hey...the more the merrier! Time to remote land and strap on ion engines to promising mineral rich asteroids and bring them into Earth Orbit. We can send rockets to mine them, asteroids could also be fashioned into cheap space bases...hollow them out a bit...put a spin on them for centripetal force artificial gravity. Set up agreements with other capable nations to join in. Yeah yeah...I know about the high costs concerning thrust to weight ratios and stuff like that. The more we learn to do it, the cheaper it will get.