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Boeing Starliner Could Brick ISS Docking Port If Crew Abandons It

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Boeing Starliner Could Brick ISS Docking Port If Crew Abandons It

Photo: NASA / Frank Michaux NASA is contemplating bringing astronauts Barry Wilmore and Suni Williams home from the International Space Station on a SpaceX Crew Dragon and flying the Boeing Starliner back empty. There’s just one problem: Boeing removed the Starliner’s autonomous undocking feature from its software. The aerospace manufacturer wants to push a software … Read more

Boeing Focused So Hard On Making Money That SpaceX Beat It

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Boeing Focused So Hard On Making Money That SpaceX Beat It

Back in 2014, the United States held its own little internal space race. NASA chose two companies to bring us back to the International Space Station, providing them with funding to build a crewed space vehicle: One established, long-proven aerospace engineering firm, and one upstart run by a guy who names all his kids like … Read more