The alternate to Crew Dragon is Starliner. Not whatever you're on about.
There's New Glenn too
There's New Glenn too
I'm sure everyone agrees with that
I'm confident Starship will be used to fly human crews at some point as well
If others come up with similar or even better rockets, everyone wins
Problem is this time is far away, and in the meantime we need something. And the best currently available system is Falcon 9 + Crew Dragon.
ISS will be decommissioned in 2030 anyway
Lots of things will change
To make a manned capsule one needs about $3B and 6-7 years. It's good some are working on it - but maybe these numbers, especially time, are a bit optimistic. I would certainly prefer more activity here.
Do you have a source for those numbers?
> I would certainly prefer more activity here.
Well Dems are recently calling the Govt to cancel all contracts with SpaceX, some lunatics go as far as to call for Elon to be executed; I doubt the attitude of the new Government will motivate Elon to invest billions into projects for the Govt
We'll see I guess