- 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.
Premature to say that they finished. Launch tonight was scrubbed. Even this launch is a test flight. Let’s see how long until NASA approves for regular flights