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There was not, considering Starliner landed safely about a month ago.

NASA was uncomfortable with the amount of risk in a new vehicle exhibiting anomalous behavior, for its first crewed re-entry.

The headline here should be: "US glad to have two separate suppliers for crewed transport"

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Three, if you are willing to count Soyuz. Are we still using Soyuz?

Yeah, we have an active seat-trading arrangement with the Russians where they send cosmonauts to ride Dragon and we send astronauts to ride Soyuz.

Soyuz could not be used to take Jeb and Val back down. Riding a Soyuz requires a custom fitted suit, and though these astronauts had both riden Soyuz in the past, those old measurements are not good enough for a current flight.

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