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We begin with Big Space Commercial Space.

Bob, what is Starliner?

It's been a while, so we need to review.

Good evening to you.

Good evening to you.

It's been a long while.

I mean, we've been talking about it on and off for the last like

seven eight years but the Starliner is the manned capsule that Boeing is building or has been trying to build for now

seven some odd years in contracts similar to what SpaceX has with its dragon

capsules both companies got a contract to what SpaceX has with its Dragon capsules.

Both companies have got contracts from NASA

to build a capsule to ferry, spacecraft,

and humans to and from ISS, with the possibility that both would own the capsules and be able to sell

tickets to others and make money on them.

And SpaceX has done this.

They started flying their dragon capsule in 2020 and they have

flown tourist missions of a whole bunch of kinds including one that's

coming up just in a short while for Axiom but Boeing has had problems had problems every step away and it has not gotten a manned flight

off with the Stahlliner. It did a demo mission on man that was supposed to prep it for the

man mission. They were problems so it

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