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Orbital Flight Test of Boeing Space Taxi Unearths Software Glitch

Irene Klotz January 10, 2020

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...

Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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