Die ISS nähert sich dem Ruhestand. Warum ist die NASA immer noch Gung-ho über Starliner? | Die NASA tut alles, um sicherzustellen, dass Boeing das Starliner -Programm nicht aufgibt.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/07/despite-chronic-letdowns-nasa-just-cant-quit-boeings-starliner/
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Because it is never a good idea to have all your eggs in a single basket. Especially if that basket belongs to the totally stable Elon Musk
They can not afford to be totally dependent on Elon Mercurial Musk, especially if the messy divorce between him and Trump continues.
Id be VERY nervous if i worked at NASA or was an astronaut whilst current USA government / Trump is in power. I’d be staying firmly on planet earth
Three main reasons would be:
Starliner could be used to travel to other space stations.
There are currently three operational crewed launch vehicles in the world, adding a fourth and second for the US provides redundancy.
NASA has already spent billions funding the development of Starliner, and they aren’t going to just let Boeing cut bait now.
Cause they don’t have to pay that much more for a functional crew capsule? Seems obvious to me.
NASA’s stated goal is to make a robust LEO economy. They are also funding Dream Chaser.
CLD’ are also being funded (slowly) they are giving them and others like Vast Space free technical help.
NASA wants commercial stations.
Probably has to do with what the CEO of the alternative option wrote on whim:
>In light of the President’s statement about cancellation of my government contracts, u/SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately,
> That would be 11 years after Boeing officials anticipated the spacecraft would enter operational service for NASA when they announced the Starliner program in 2010.
Mind boggling when one looks at historical aerospace development rates – doubly so given how this isn’t nearly so pioneering.
Because it brings money to several States. Being stupid expensive overbilling Boeing brings so much cash to these different States. 4billion for a rocket that gets burned up every time it is used is a way to suck the money from the government.
What a weird title. Obviously new stations will be built after the ISS and NASA will need to transport astronauts just like they do now. Having more than one operational crewed spacecraft is quite crucial for redunancy.
The NASA mission explicitly demands two providers for human space flight. That’s the only reason.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
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|[CLD](/r/Space/comments/1m1aikh/stub/n3fnzsj „Last usage“)|Commercial Low-orbit Destination(s)|
|CST|(Boeing) Crew Space Transportation capsules|
| |Central Standard Time (UTC-6)|
|[LEO](/r/Space/comments/1m1aikh/stub/n3fnzsj „Last usage“)|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)|
| |Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)|
|Jargon|Definition|
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|[Starliner](/r/Space/comments/1m1aikh/stub/n3fyf9d „Last usage“)|Boeing commercial crew capsule [CST-100](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_CST-100_Starliner)|
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Starliner is a fixed-price contract. NASA has already paid Boeing $4.2billion to get a working capsule. And quite reasonably, they want the thing they’ve already paid for. Boeing, on the other hand, wants out because they’ve spent more than $4.2 billion on the thing they are getting paid $4.2 billion for.