• burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 days ago

    At this point it’s impossible for Starliner to get 6 staggered flights in. They’d have to do back to backs, which NASA doesn’t seem interested in. I do kind of wonder if NASA would try a contract mod to fly a Starliner to a commercial station, but I’m sure Boeing would run into a brick wall of software updates to make that happen.

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        2 days ago

        I probably misremembered/misrepresented that. NASA would actually have to book more SpaceX flights to not have Starliner go back-to-back at this point.

        The bigger question might be what Boeing’s refurb/turnaround time is, and whether they can even prep one of their two vehicles and a new service module in 5 months to support a back-to-back.