Talk:USCV-4

NASASpaceflight forums is not a source — Preceding unsigned comment added by LoganBlade (talk • contribs) 10:17, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

USCV-4 is the fourth mission in the Commercial Crew series. As of May 2020, it is unknown whether this will be on a SpaceX Crew Dragon or a Boeing Starliner, yet this article was written assuming Boeing. Should Boeing's OFT-2 and CFT missions be successful, the launch schedule will tend to favor Boeing as the launch and crew vehicle for USCV-3 and thus SpaceX for USCV-4 (alternating thereafter), but that has not been determined yet. -- Wizardimps (talk) 04:12, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

• • • The above is probably moot as SpaceX has been able to launch its Demo-2 mission yesterday [30 May 2020 US time/UTC]. Boeing has still to fly its OFT-2 mission successfully by which time the first operational SpaceX Crew Dragon should be in orbit. And after OFT-2 there is still the Boeing Crewed Flight Test or CFT and that will probably not launch before early 2021 by which time Crew-1 will already have been in orbit for nearly six months. Abul Bakhtiar 103.60.175.28 (talk) 10:10, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

Which vehicle will be assigned to USCV-4 is certainly not a moot point. SpaceX will fly USCV-1 (Crew-1) and USCV-2 (Crew-2). If Boeing is ready, then they will fly CTS-1 on USCV-3 and SpaceX will fly Crew-3 on USCV-4; if Boeing is not ready, then SpaceX will fly Crew-3 on USCV-3 and Boeing will fly CTS-1 on USCV-4. It all depends on when Boeing is ready, which is why this USCV-4 article should not be written assuming one way or the other. We won't know until sometime in 2021. -- Wizardimps (talk) 01:58, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

• I completely agree with the above and favor deletion of this article as it is based on too many 'ifs'. When it is the right time then sure somebody will have the privilege of creating the appropriate article with the proper references and all. Abul Bakhtiar 103.205.69.28 (talk) 07:54, 5 June 2020 (UTC)