Starliner: The US space industry's next big thing?
BBCStarliner: The US space industry's next big thing? Boeing's Starliner website reads like a car brochure After funding the initial development of five potential commercial spacecraft, Nasa narrowed the field down to two in 2014 : aerospace behemoth Boeing's Starliner, and space upstart SpaceX with its Crew Dragon. Meanwhile, Starliner's pioneer astronauts, Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Suni Williams, have been patiently waiting a further four years for their chance to fly a week-long mission to the ISS in what Boeing promises will be a "next generation space capsule". Nasa very much wants to establish a market for low-Earth orbit – Jason Davis For Boeing and SpaceX's primary customer, Nasa, the benefit of having two commercial providers flying two different spacecraft almost guarantees sovereign access to space. Getty Images SpaceX's Starship is another US spacecraft which the US space industry could one day use "Nasa very much wants to establish a market for low-Earth orbit," says Davis.
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