[nickff]

JWST was about 15 years late and 20x over budget; would you apply a similar criteria, in which case that would probably be "a total failure"?

[thmsths]

No, because I don't have another data point to compare. In the case of Starliner, there was a competitor, with a lower bid, that launched 4 years prior and did not suffer a billion dollar loss to top it all.