Starliner spacesuits not compatible with SpaceX Dragon

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How could they not think of this during design? Rocket science, my ass.
- Private companies competing for things ends up with stuff like this. Unless NASA or someone designs a spec and contractually enforces everyone to implement it, problems like this can crop up in all kinds of places.
  
  In most fields, even private companies understand the need for industry standards.
  
  And in new fields of privatization, someone has to win out on the standard. It should have been NASA demanding an interoperable spec but someone will win out here eventually and it will be standard in the future.
  
  XLCD: Standards
  
  When you make a new standard to consolidate related-but-drifting standards, all you’ve done is make n+1 standards.
  
  XLCD
  Ah yes, XLCD, created by Rbndall Mvnroe.
  
  Yeah, like how Apple works with other phone and tablet manufacturers to use a unified charging and data port.
  
  I can’t tell if this is sarcastic because Apple contributed over 20% of the engineers credited with developing USB-C.
  All told, Apple contributed 18 of 79 named engineers listed on the connector certification project or under 23%. 9to5
  
  It's sarcasm, because it took EU legislation to force them to actually fucking use it in their phones a decade later.
  
  They don't contribute engineers out of the kindness of their hearts. They do it for entirely selfish reasons — to have a large influence in industry standards, and the competitive advantages that enables.
  Do you also believe Google created Chrome for "freedom", instead of to gain a competitive advantage in web and ad tech standards?
  
  Only when it's their standard most of the time, which is the reason why we have so many standards for so many things that do basically the same thing
  
  And that's why we have the EU telling apple and their fanboys to eat shit and use USB-C :) without these legislators we get the chaos you mention
  For consumer products I don't agree with enforcing it through the beginning though as it might hinder innovation. But once you have a few working cases you enforce the better one
- Elon and his companies seem to have a propensity for preferring proprietary bullshit over standards
  
  There is no general spacesuit "standard". Suits up to this point have all been designed for a specific purpose and often even a specific vehicle. Newer vehicles have used newer suit designs to go with them. The upcoming Orion system for Artemis uses an entirely new and different suit as well. Not to mention the Russian and Chinese suits are different as well to work with their vehicles.
  
  So what we need to do is keep a bunch of umbilical adaptor hoses in the glovebox of every spacecraft.
  "Do we have a Boeing to SpaceX adaptor?"
  "No but we can do Boeing to ESA to Soyuz to Shuttle to SpaceX. It's 8 feet long but it will work."
  "Good enough then."
  
  The internet would absolutely lose it if SpaceX started selling dongles.
  
  That's because you are illiterate in the matter and want to criticize spacex for the sake of it.Unfortunately there is no current "standard" for space suits.
  
  I don't think there is a standard. NASA should have mandated something in this department.

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