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Mike Wehner
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- NASA announced today that its investigation into Boeing's Starliner program revealed 80 issues that need to be addressed.
- The issues run the gamut from software issues to processes the company uses to test and validate its equipment.
- Boeing's Starliner has still yet to complete an uncrewed test flight to the International Space Station.
Once upon a time, SpaceX and Boeing were in a race to see who would be first to deliver a crew-capable spacecraft to NASA. In the beginning, many analysts believed Boeing's Starliner would beat SpaceX's Crew Dragon to the punch. In hindsight, that was a foolish assumption, as there are currently two astronauts on the International Space Station right now that got there via a Crew Dragon spacecraft and Boeing still hasn't even completed an uncrewed test flight to the ISS.
After the Starliner failed to make it to the ISS during its previous unmanned test — due to a clock glitch that caused the spacecraft to burn more fuel than it was supposed to — NASA and Boeing formed a team to dive deep into the Starliner program and figure out what still needs to be fixed. That team just completed their work and released a report that reveals the many shortcomings of Boeing's spacecraft.
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NASA says Boeing has to fix 80 things related to Starliner originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 8 Jul 2020 at 15:57:33 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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