It's fine, it will be even more late ten years from now!
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Boeing doing their best to make SpaceX look good
Spaceflight news for the past decade has basically been a lot of 
. SpaceX's ownership consists entirely of shitheads, either the really famous one or various investment firms. But their scientists and engineers who are doing the actual work really do know what they're doing.
The Falcon and Dragon are legitimately good systems.
But also,
When you're in a scamming the government competition but your opponents are Boeing and ULA.
There’s good news though. Both Boeing’s Starliner and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon are fixed-price contracts with payments on certain milestones. These aren’t the old-fashioned “cost-plus” contracts where the contractor could just bill for every expense with a fat margin on top.
I somehow doubt it.
If it's boeing it's not going (to space)
if it's not boeing i'm not going (to die)
It's pronounced "boing" now, like "Boeing! Our planes bounce."
It'll arrive at the same time GTA 6 does.
I googled it to see what it looked like and it's just a fucking pod??
Just a fucking pod is the correct shape, that's not the problem. The problem is everything else about it.
im sorry but that's not a "starliner" though it's "just another capsule"
I thought it'd at least be an attempt to make it look like a "ship" like the SpaceX thing if they're gonna call it a "starliner"
"Ship" is actually a stupid and bad shape to make a thing that has to go up and down through an atmosphere.
Yeah I know but I'm still not gonna let them get away with naming a POD like it's a SHIP. Come on, have ye no anger for false advertising?
My opinion is that the only true spaceships ever built were the Apollo lunar landers. Everything else has either been uncrewed, a space station, or part aircraft.
Valid and cool opinion, and thinking in that vein I'd be even more picky and only count the ascent module.
But really, a spaceship as we imagine it still hasn't yet been created. A vessel entirely for space, never intended to enter an atmosphere or touch a surface, but purely to move people and supplies between various orbits.
The nuclear shuttle of the original STS plan would have been one, had it ever been built.
water ship
air ship
rival ship
space ship
Y'know, recycling JFK's speech:
But if I were to say, my fellow citizens, that we shall send to the moon, 240,000 miles away from the control station in Houston, a giant rocket more than 300 feet tall, the length of this football field, made of new metal alloys, some of which have not yet been invented, capable of standing heat and stresses several times more than have ever been experienced, fitted together with a precision better than the finest watch, carrying all the equipment needed for propulsion, guidance, control, communications, food and survival, on an untried mission, to an unknown celestial body, and then return it safely to Earth, re-entering the atmosphere at speeds of over 25,000 miles per hour, causing heat about half that of the temperature of the sun — almost as hot as it is here today — and do all this, and do it right, and do it first before this decade is out— then we must be bold.
Is a lot less inspiring when applied to the length of the extension of the project...
"It is therefore absolutely urgent that we cut back on those pesky safety measures so we can deliver on time"