"David Spain" wrote in message ...

On 6/24/2019 3:46 AM, Fred J. McCall wrote:
NASA has reportedly updated its launch dates for Commercial Crew
missions. The Starliner unmanned orbital test is now manifested for
September (the original holdup was apparently largely due to launch
vehicle availability). Both Starliner and Crew Dragon are currently
manifested for manned flights in November (Crew Dragon first), which
would seem to imply that the Crew Dragon Max Q Abort Test would happen
sometime before that, although we still have no date for that and no
new information on what caused the test pad anomaly.

I am skeptical of the Crew Dragon dates until I hear more about results of
the accident investigation, remediation steps, NASA buy-in and sign-off
etc.

Seems to me SpaceX has an uphill climb. It wouldn't surprise me if
Starliner goes first in both at this point.


I think a LOT depends on what the result of the Crew Dragon failure analysis
comes down to.

And in their defense, they've at least flown actual hardware. Starliner
still hasn't.

And given the costs and launch vehicle availability, SpaceX can afford to do
more testing, sooner if they have to.
s
Dave


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