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Originally Posted by seamonster
Boeing has been sending rockets into space for a long time. They're probably one of the most trustworthy big-space operations in the world.
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I mean sure, but Starliner has been a complete disaster in every way except actually killing people. It was originally supposed to be in operation in 2017, so it's SEVEN YEARS behind schedule. Boeing has lost about $1.5 BILLION on it because NASA finally got tired of essentially subsidizing the company by awarding them cost-plus contracts. It was originally supposed to be a race between Boeing and SpaceX, and so far Starliner has flown 0 operational missions (and this one is still just a test) while SpaceX has flown 8 flights for NASA and another 4 for commercial customers (that's double their original contract - mostly because Boeing shit the bed and NASA needed someone else to step in).
For the sake of having redundancy, I hope Starliner flies and flies well, but implying that Boeing deserves any sort of trust with it because of their decades-old track record completely ignores the debacle that company has been for the past 20 or so years.