I feel like if I was one of the astronauts picked, I’d fake the measles or something so I could nope the fuck out of it.
You want to believe that the quality control issues in their aircraft wing don’t cross over to starliner, but delays, glitches and multiple other issues in Starliner say otherwise.
It’s not like they had to do software updates on the fly to land it last launch.
Why get there economically when you can get there for ten times the price?
They want redundancy. What if Musk goes crazy in a new direction and decides to retire Dragon.
They should have thought of redundancy for the HLS. For one, you have a space fuel depot with cryogenic boil off that has to be refilled by multiple (at least 12?) starships. And then you have a slender long full rocket stage that has to land vertically on soft and unprepared lunar regolith. For some reason, my engineering instincts are revolting just at the thoughts of it.
They could shoot the occupants for free. Same glorious Boeing ™ results fo no money.
