Boeing's 1st Starliner flight with astronauts delayed to April 2024

[Admin]

NASA announced that Boeing's commercial crew vehicle, Starliner, will not carry astronauts in a test flight until at least April 2024. Its first operational flight is also delayed into 2025.

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[newtons_laws]

As Starliner is a fixed price (rather than cost plus) contract all these delays must be hurting Boeing financially. That is appropriate since it's Boeing's technical failures that have caused all the delays.

 

[bryant]

NASA announced that Boeing's commercial crew vehicle, Starliner, will not carry astronauts in a test flight until at least April 2024. Its first operational flight is also delayed into 2025.

Boeing's 1st Starliner flight with astronauts delayed to April 2024 : Read more

How many flights will they need to perform before the ISS is decommissioned? seems by the time they are up and running, the station will be deorbited, unless there's a venture capitalist willing to take it on and keep it up, though age is compromising that idea.

 

[doc janos]

By now, all aerospace journalists must have a file on their laptop titled starliner_delay.doc in which they simply complete the sentence, "Boeing Starliner launch delayed until _____."