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> Starliner might be someday as well

Starliner can only launch 7 or eight times, due to the Atlas V, the rocket it’s been mated to, having already been EOL’d. Those launches have already been scheduled. So even with Starliner there is zero redundancy if Dragon hits a snag.

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It's going to launch on top of SLS going forward, which has its own one off bespoke design problem of its own

HA!

> It's going to launch on top of SLS going forward

Source?

It isn’t trivial re-engineering and re-certifying Starliner for SLS. (Also, Starliner is designed to go to LEO. It’s a shuttle, not a spaceship. Isn’t SLS too powerful and expensive?)

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