Like a compressed spring, the Starliner is readied for launch. The star imagery gets lost on me. We’re burning more hydrocarbons than an entire small town uses to heat their homes all winter just reaching orbit in one shot.
Then comes a crewed Starship, at some point soon. The Boeing vs. Space-X saga continues, with illusory bottom lines shifting faster than the shade I been throwing on Boeing for twenty years. I’m sure the astronauts have all their affairs in order.
The bottom line is that Boeing technically earned the flight software milestones in its commercial crew contract. But by not putting in the work for an end-to-end test of its software, the company failed its final exam.
