[steve86]

No damage was done to the ISS docking port during either arrival or departure and the Starliner’s reentry and touchdown was picture perfect. No complicated systems work perfectly -— at some level there s always departures from engineering norms.

[MinorityRepublican]

No damage was done to the ISS docking port during either arrival or departure and the Starliner’s reentry and touchdown was picture perfect. No complicated systems work perfectly -— at some level there s always departures from engineering norms.

It was a success. But is it cost effective? SpaceX is way ahead. Boeing is like the government now.

[Political Junkie Too]

Sure, but Apollo 7 was the first crewed mission into space on that platform. How many Starliner missions did they fly to shake out all these "glitches" before putting people into it?

SpaceX had 8 uncrewed missions before flying a crewed mission into space.

Starliner had only 2 uncrewed missions before flying this one.

Did they get lucky? Were there enough test flights to find all of the reasonably possible departures from the norm?

-PJ