Orbital Flight Test of Boeing Space Taxi Unearths Software Glitch

Boeng Starlner
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft returned from an abbreviated orbital flight test on Dec. 22 at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.
Credit: Bill Ingalls/NASA
NASA had hoped 2019 would be the year the U.S. restored its capability to fly astronauts into orbit aboard U.S. rockets. But both Boeing and SpaceX, the companies selected in 2014 to develop commercial space taxis in partnership with NASA, faltered, pushing crewed flight tests into 2020. The latest...

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