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Yup. Boeing thought they could (because they were taught they could) submit a half baked design and NASA would throw infinite money at it to make it work. Dragon was a life-or-death program for SpaceX, so they put the effort into making it work from the start. And now one might argue that SpaceX is now in that position, expecting that NASA will throw infinite money at them to get Starship to work... https://spacenews.com/report-links-starliner-problems-to-overconfidence-and-unrealistic-schedules/