The company is not giving up on its troubled spacecraft yet, but the cost of its failures keeps adding up.
Boeing’s Starliner is the little spacecraft that couldn’t, and the company is being forced to pay a hefty price for its delayed program. Following the failed test flight from a few months ago, Boeing is taking another $250 million charge for the commercial crew program, adding up to a total of $1.85 billion that the company has had to spend from its own money to cover Starliner’s cost overruns.
Under its $4.2 billion contract with NASA, Boeing retains full ownership of the Starliner spacecraft. NASA, acting as a customer, purchases round-trip missions to transport crew and cargo to the International Space Station . So far, in case you haven’t been following, it’s been a total shit show., carrying NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunni Williams for the spacecraft’s first crewed test flight.
In 2014, NASA awarded Boeing and SpaceX contracts as part of the space agency’s Commercial Crew Program to develop spacecraft capable of carrying crew and cargo to the ISS. At the time, Boeing was a well-known force in the industry while SpaceX was a relative newcomer with a lot to prove. Over the past four years, however, SpaceX exceeded in its assignment, launching nine crews to the space station, while Boeing is still struggling to get certified for its first mission.
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