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The surprise is not that Boeing lost commercial crew but that it finished at all (arstechnica.com)

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Boeing's Starliner spacecraft was favored to win a contract worth billions to develop a crew capsule over SpaceX.
Boeing received $4.2 billion to develop a "commercial crew" transportation system, but ultimately lost the commercial crew space race.
Boeing struggled to adjust to a fixed-price environment and faced financial pressure and technical challenges in developing Starliner.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Yes I agree launches get scrubbed all the time. My point was that Boeing hasn’t crossed the finished line by any measure of complete.

Looking back, they were trying to say they were done as soon as they launched the first uncrewed flight test. Heck even after it didn’t make it to the space station they were still trying to claim success.

Being finished means actually getting NASA to agree to regular operations. That has not happened yet, and it won’t happen until after this mission lands.