It’s astonishing to believe that when the money was being dished out for NASA’s next generation crew capsule to get astronauts to the ISS, Boeing put together a proposal that demanded the
entire project budget be given to them. Instead, and thankfully, they got more than $4bn while the upstarts at SpaceX got a little over half as much.
Now, having finally managed to get astronauts to the ISS aboard a Boeing spacecraft, NASA has been forced to admit what most of us have suspected for weeks … they don’t trust the Starliner to get them home again in one piece.
The test pilots will have to wait it out in space until next February when the next SpaceX capsule with spare seats for them is due to return to Earth.
What the heck has gone wrong at Boeing? From aircraft that crash themselves and aircraft that jettison bits of their fuselage to a space capsule that can’t tell the time and leaks gas like your uncle Derek after Christmas dinner, it’s all gone horribly wrong.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy47w9yndpo