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Re:Boeing has now lost $1.1B on Starliner, with no crew flig... by elteto on Thursday July 27, 2023 @12:07AM (#36888782)
Dragon 2 is _not_ an iteration on Dragon 1. It’s a completely different vehicle and it was risky for SpaceX to go the route of developing a completely new vehicle. Yet they got it done, cheaper and faster.
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Re:Boeing has now lost $1.1B on Starliner, with no crew flig... by Retric on Thursday July 27, 2023 @10:18AM (#36893947)
You can make that argument, but they share quite a bit of hardware and software.

Plenty of things were updated like IDSS, but that’s an evolution of the old docking standard etc etc. But in the end the unmanned dragon 2 is using the same Falcon 9 rocket, on literally the same mission they even call it extended dragon in several places.

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