Why don't they use Starship, seems like Musk's company has a great record overall for designing and operating spacecraft. I asked Gemini, of course Boeing is in the picture: "NASA has contracts with multiple partners (Boeing, Lockheed Martin) for the SLS and Orion, and shifting entirely to Starship would require canceling these expensive, legally binding contracts.".

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dannyfreeman 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Starship explodes

	▲	mrguyorama an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Starship has also never launched a payload as heavy as the Orion stack. It's about 60k pounds. Starship has also never even reached orbit yet. I believe it's capable but, like, it would be nice to be demoed first. Starship has only ever lifted 44k pounds, and most of it's more successful tests operate only with 35k pounds.