fnorksayer t1_je8jeyd wrote on March 30, 2023 at 4:43 AM

Why do they need Boeing if there is already dragon that works well?

Goregue t1_je8kwc5 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 4:59 AM

Redundancy in case something goes wrong with Dragon/Falcon 9. NASA basically doesn't want a repeat of what happened in the 2010s after the space shuttle was retired and they were forced to buy seats on Soyuz for 10 years.

TbonerT t1_je999qe wrote on March 30, 2023 at 10:30 AM

The space shuttle had failure throughout its program. If something goes wrong with Falcon 9, we’ll be flying again relatively quickly since we know it is a reliable rocket. The AMOS-6 explosion happened on September 1 and SpaceX flew again in December, just 3 months later.

bullett2434 t1_je9cy90 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 11:14 AM

I mean spacex could go bankrupt one day out of nasas control, or they could abandon the F9 based on a business decision. And then nasa would be screwed. Not saying it would happen but crazier things have

TbonerT t1_je9dimu wrote on March 30, 2023 at 11:20 AM

Those aren’t things that would suddenly happen. NASA could probably afford to keep SpaceX afloat with contracts for the rockets it wants. It isn’t helpless to SpaceX’s whims.

photoengineer t1_jefgn2h wrote on March 31, 2023 at 4:58 PM

That wasn’t with people though. The shuttle down times were years.

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