On 2018-02-13 20:20, Fred J. McCall wrote:
SpaceX is affected to the extent that resupply and crew missions would
go away. BFR is probably largely unaffected, though, since it
probably would just barely be into that business and once it is,
development spending is largely complete.
In all of the fancy powepoints, SpaceX has its BFR attacxhed at the
station (where PMA2 is, so docked).
If SoaceX intends to retire Falcon 9, then one would expect BFR to
replace its duties to bring cargo/crews to/from station.
Loss of station about the time BFR gets functional removes a commercial >customer for its crewed version. And also removes the need to develop
docking software for the station.
Why would 'commercial crew' be forced to split? Do you know what
'commercial' means?
If you hjave 10 years with of crew rotation split between 2 companies,
each company has a fair number of paind launches. But if you now have
only 5 year worth of crew transport, can 2 companies cost justify the >development costs for manned capsules?
With SpaceX ahead, wouldn't it make sense for Boeing to kills it CST
program since the number of launches it could expect to make before the >station is shut wouldn pay back the investment in CST and whatever
rocket gets man-rated to launch it ?
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