{"id":25070,"date":"2024-06-09T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T10:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/107425417"},"modified":"2024-06-09T10:00:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T10:00:17","slug":"behind-boeings-decade-long-struggle-to-launch-astronauts-on-starliner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/behind-boeings-decade-long-struggle-to-launch-astronauts-on-starliner\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind Boeing&#8217;s decade-long struggle to launch astronauts on Starliner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/behind-boeings-decade-long-struggle-to-launch-astronauts-on-starliner.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"HighlightShare-hidden\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p><span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-1\"><span class=\"waslinkname\">Boeing<\/span><span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\" aria-label=\"Add To Watchlist\" data-testid=\"dropdown-btn\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"><\/span><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span>&#8216;s Starliner is a human-grade space capsule designed to take astronauts to and from the International Space Station. Boeing began work on the capsule in 2014, when it signed a $4.2 billion contract with NASA under the agency&#8217;s Commercial Crew Program.<\/p>\n<p>NASA also selected SpaceX for the job, giving <span class=\"waslinkname\">Elon Musk&#8217;s<\/span> company $2.6 billion to develop its Crew Dragon capsule.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The entirety of the Commercial Crew Program was very much a new venture,&#8221; said Caleb Henry, director of research at Quilty Space. &#8220;Prior to that, NASA relied on a lot of its own engineering talent to get humans to the space station.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Henry said the program allowed NASA to offload &#8220;some of those responsibilities to the private sector.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was some reticence in Congress towards this type of approach,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It was only because Boeing threw its hat in the ring that Congress and by extension, NASA, were confident enough to actually go forward with this program.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the decade since, Boeing has struggled to deliver on the six missions it&#8217;s contracted to fly with NASA.<\/p>\n<p>Of the nearly $5 billion Boeing has received to develop Starliner to date, the company has spent <span class=\"waslinkname\">$1.5 billion<\/span> to cover delay overruns. Boeing recently <span class=\"waslinkname\">launched<\/span> its last test, a milestone crewed mission, which it needs to complete before NASA can certify Starliner to begin operational missions.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX, meanwhile, has completed over a dozen crewed missions to space, launching both NASA astronauts and private citizens since 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the <span class=\"waslinkname\">video<\/span> to learn more about the obstacles that Boeing has faced with its Starliner project and what the future may hold for its long-awaited capsule.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing&#8216;s Starliner is a human-grade space capsule designed to take astronauts to and from the International Space Station. Boeing began work on the capsule in 2014, when it signed a $4.2 billion contract with NASA under the agency&#8217;s Commercial Crew Program. NASA also selected SpaceX for the job, giving Elon Musk&#8217;s company $2.6 billion to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-25070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","has-thumb","has-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25070"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=25070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}