• halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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    7 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.