@@michaeldemarco9950Even though the SpaceX crew dragon got less volume space starliner is very cramped even in zero gravity it’s going to be hard to even live in.
This is an incredibly well made spacecraft and these last two videos do a great job to show that. Once Suni and Butch get up there, Starliner will take its spot as one of the most advanced and robust vehicles ferrying astronauts to space. That being said, when compared to the Dragon, it doesn't stand a chance in making news. People associate the look, feel, and general set-up of Starliner with old space tech. It matches the ISS interior and the shuttles. The Dragon looks high-tech in comparison. Exterior, interior, -- even the suits just look like what we imagine advanced spaceflight to look like. I'm not sure I know of anything specific that the Dragon does better (other than actually getting people to space thus far) but I know that presentation matters. Boeing relied on old tech and old ways of doing things. Thus it looks like a craft we could have developed in the seventies or eighties (minus the tablets). So, on top of the delays and series of missed deadlines (not to mention the bad press Boeing airplanes have received) the reason Starliner won't be remembered like the Dragon is because it doesn't look new.
fun fact (except RIP R Hubbard): Robert Hubbard, the co-inventor of the Head and Neck Support Device (HANS), died Tuesday. A former professor in biomechanical engineering at Michigan State University, Hubbard created the HANS Device in the mid-80s with Jim Downing, his brother-in-law and a champion IMSA driver.
After watching this I have to say that I am thoroughly unimpressed. The capsule control panel makes me think of a 1950 Studebaker, and most of the people in the video seem to be basically telling each other how good they are. Lord knows they've had plenty of extra time to improve things better than they had been but it looks like they've just been sitting around trying the same thing over and over.
Improving things costs money lol. And bowing’s already well in the hole. You can actually almost assume they’ve laid off everyone that’s completed their work on time years ago to save as much as possible.
I was expecting the poor quality work and thumbnail dependent productions of Astrum or Markus House and his space-ex hype. what a surprise Space Flight Now has provided, for free! thank you for this thorough and informative presentation on where billions of our tax dollars have gone, and will pour into in the future.
We've already gotten our money's worth. If Boeing was not attached to SpaceX as a part of the commercial crew program, the program never would have had the political clout to survive. The Starliner will never be as cheap or reliable as Dragon, but Dragon would not exist without Starliner. Both awards were made together.
