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Boeing's Starliner successfully docks with space station after challenging rendezvous (www.cbsnews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

To be fair though, since we're comparing them, Starship is also not exactly on schedule and it's starting to result in canceled missions.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Musk also promised two Starships on Mars by 2023, they're more than a little behind.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

True, Starship is taking longer than originally estimated... But these systems are not comparable at all, it's comparing Apples and Oranges. Starship is a completely new category of launch platform with no direct comparison in history. Starliner is just a more modern capsule system.

The actual comparison to Starliner is Crew Dragon. The actual direct comparison, and funded from the same NASA contract set as Starliner. Crew Dragon has already made 13 successful crewed launches at nearly half the NASA contract budget.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

When has anything space ever been on schedule? SpaceX may be behind, but considering what they're trying to do with Starship, it's hardly unexpected.