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Cockroaches! Hopefully we at least get some new creative launch failures out of the resurrection.

...but they won't tell us what it is yet. And they haven't settled on how to make Artemis 2 safe.

I probably misremembered/misrepresented that. NASA would actually have to book more SpaceX flights to not have Starliner go back-to-back at this point.

The bigger question might be what Boeing's refurb/turnaround time is, and whether they can even prep one of their two vehicles and a new service module in 5 months to support a back-to-back.

I couldn't dream up a more fitting ending for the Bears

Yeah, alternate title: "Feedback Loop Works".

And soon(ish) the new Bolt, EX30, EV3, and R3.

Idk, Millennium, a Boeing subsidiary that makes satellites, just got a pretty good contract.

https://spacenews.com/millennium-space-secures-386-million-contract-for-missile-defense-satellites/

And now released.

https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/crew-8-astronaut-released-from-hospital-back-in-houston/

The suborbital one? At least this one sort of goes to orbit.

At this point it's impossible for Starliner to get 6 staggered flights in. They'd have to do back to backs, which NASA doesn't seem interested in. I do kind of wonder if NASA would try a contract mod to fly a Starliner to a commercial station, but I'm sure Boeing would run into a brick wall of software updates to make that happen.

Space isn't their core and it keeps losing them money, so...

It'll be interesting to see if they try to spin off and subsidiaries/divisions or just straight up cancel anything.

Of course the Avio (Vega) CEO disagreed. He's used to milking European government contracts and being propped up as a strategic asset. Hopefully the European launch startups teach him a lesson.