To: george76
"Boeing won $4.2 billion to develop Starliner, and it has yet to successfully complete a single manned mission."
The numbers and the incompetence boggle my mind.
2 posted on
08/22/2024 1:49:17 PM PDT by
The Louiswu
(Pray for Peace in the world.)
To: The Louiswu
"Boeing won $4.2 billion to develop Starliner, and it has yet to successfully complete a single manned mission." The numbers and the incompetence boggle my mind.
On May 30, 2020, Crew Dragon (SpaceX) became the first American spacecraft to carry astronauts to orbit since the space shuttle was retired in 2011, and the first private spacecraft to reach the International Space Station.
Since then, Crew Dragon vehicles have flown 49 different astronauts (one of them twice) to space on 13 missions, nine of them for NASA and four of them private.
24 posted on
08/22/2024 3:04:09 PM PDT by
higgmeister
(In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
To: The Louiswu; Red Badger; Liz; SunkenCiv; Kaslin; Lazamataz; BenLurkin; BobL; NicknamedBob
Hey! No fair!
(Right now, this minute, Boeing is (probably) more than halfway through their first manned mission! That ain’t bad progress for more than a decade’s work on a NASA contract.)
Seriously. Would have given up on Grissom halfway through his first flight .. .. .. If it turned out needing 6 weeks to come back down? /sarchasm
45 posted on
08/22/2024 6:21:43 PM PDT by
Robert A Cook PE
(Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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