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I wonder if the crewed capsule that BO is working on will be Goddard derived or will be based off of Jarvis

I could imagine Jarvis being a capsule that is significantly larger than Dragon/Soyuz/Starliner but smaller than say Starship, I feel like Starship would be too big for most commercial stations, maybe a crewed Jarvis could hold like 10-15 people? That in itself would be revolutionary

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IIRC they've changed plans a bunch of times and had to redesign their rockets from scratch which probably cost them 5-10 years.

For instance, New Shepherd was originally supposed to have multiple engines and would have resembled a cross between the DC-X and the Chrysler SERV, but they scrapped that design around 2010-2012 and ended up going with the single-engine two-stage hydrolox powered chode of a New Shepherd that we see today.

They've also made significant changes to their orbital vehicle plans, as their orbital rocket was originally Falcon 9-sized and aimed at the Commercial Crew market, and almost resembled a Kistler K-1 with a 1st stage that landed DC-X style. They then cancelled this design around 2015-2016 in favor of the much larger New Glenn.

Apparently it was quite far along development wise, as there are persistent rumors that actual prototype hardware was built for it, the Crew Dragon-sized biconic manned capsule included. I'd imagine that getting to see that hardware in person (including whatever engine would have powered it) way well have been what convinced ULA to go with the BE-4 as the engine for Vulcan even though it only existed on paper at the time.