Oh, boy.  

I love SpaceX.  I really am a big fan.  But overinflating SpaceX is something that irritates the shit out of me.  SpaceX belongs on the pedestal but not in anivory tower.  

First off, Dragon only lands in the water which is the EXACT OPPOSITE of what NASA and SpaceX wanted.   In addition to needing extremely costly range vessels, it is dangerous and corrosive.

Secondly, NASA really compromised on the human safety factors for fueling and prepping for launch with humans on board the Dragon/F9 combo.  

Sure, there's problems with Starliner and SLS.  But only a bullshitter overlooks the flaws of one while highlighting the flaws of another.  

There are other features - agnostic mating, autonomous docking (added to Dragon in 2021), individually switched controls (vice touchscreen) that NASA wanted.  

If you want to see EXACTLY what NASA really wanted, look at the SNC Dream Chaser lifting body.  NASA loves lifting bodies and tourists will too.

-space systems engineer

There’s only 1 unit system that got man to the moon

Metric is annoying. Felt that way growing up in NZ where everything was in metric.

Looks like it made it back.

setting up Starlink at the Starliner landing site

Meters.

Actually - at the time, the guidance only displayed the results in Imperial units for convenience, the actual computations were done in SI (metric) units.

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Heard the boom when it was coming in. Couldn't see shit sue to the haze (forest fires).

You could repurpose the trunk to allow motors.

A back up plan is not a bad idea. Not saying this is it but two vehicles alows for HA

How do you think they are currently doing it?

Google soyuz for your answer.

Yep. That meme gets old.

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But dem qtrly profits tho.



Boeing likes to outsource, so probably.