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At time of writing, it's the opposite: Falcon is launching humans into space on a regular basis, something SLS has entirely failed to do to date.

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They have fundamentally different purposes, and so soundbite comparisons between them are meaningless.

my search says falcon has launches humans twice. Am i mistaken? that doesnt qualify as "regular basis"

Crew-1 to Crew-6, DM-2, Inspiration 4, Axiom 1, Axiom 2

10 missions

A crewed mission to the ISS every 6 months plus a handful of commercials.

Your numbers are way off.

thanks, thats what i get for asking bing instead of looking myself

Ah the penalty of dated LLM models

technically bing should have access to this regardless because it can access the internet (despite its training cutoff date) but its my fault for not digging deeper and trusting its output

Crew-1 and Crew-2 happened before September 2021.

Next time just skip Bing and post the wrong answer. You'll get corrected with exactly what you're looking for.

I think this was an xkcd.

(Ward) Cunningham's Law. You might be thinking of the classic "Someone is wrong on the internet!" xkcd.

Also for saying "my research". Saying "bing says" would have been just as bad.

i said my "search" not "my research"

Indeed i misread

And Crew-7 is about to take off in a week or so.

It has been the only way for the US to launch humans from the US since 2020.

10 flights with humans so far and more planned: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Dragon_2

SLS hasn't yet been asked to launch a human.

From Wikipedia:

> The SLS was created by an act of Congress in the NASA Authorization Act of 2010, Public Law 111–267, in which NASA was directed to create a system for launching payloads and crew into space that would replace the capabilities lost with the retirement of the Space Shuttle.

SLS was "asked" 13 years ago to launch humans, and we are still waiting for that to happen.

Only because SLS has so far failed to qualify to launch a human.

SLS was on the schedule to launch humans several years ago. However, failing to qualify means that NASA can NOT ask them to launch a human

Unless the Congress makes an act to force them ignore the certification status of SLS.

He says, implying that this is the only thing stopping that from happening.

Is SLS even certified to carry people into space yet?

> Is SLS even certified to carry people into space yet?

It better be because Artemis-II will have people aboard Orion.

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