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    Boeing defends Starliner space capsule ground tests after problematic debut flight

    "Boeing engineers thought that it would be "more logical to break the mission phases into chunks and do a lot of testing in those smaller chunks," he said. "When you do a single run from launch to docking, that's a 25-plus hour single run on the computer." " That's a dubious statement at best...
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    Boeing's Starliner Fails to Reach Correct Orbit En Route to Space Station

    Really interesting if this is another software issue. Preliminary reports show the Mission Elapse Timer was off. So just like MCAS, was there any reliability and redundancy built into the design? Was there adequate Failure Mode Effects & Analysis (FMEA) conducted during its functional analysis...