Boeing’s Epic Bad Year Ends With Space Dud, CEO in Jeopardy
- Company’s legacy of engineering prowess suffers another blow
- With Max crisis still raging, pressure mounts on Muilenburg
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The launch of the first Boeing Co. Starliner started promisingly enough, with CEO Dennis Muilenburg on hand to cheer as a rocket blasted the capsule into the pre-dawn Florida sky to pioneer a new era in space flight.
But as the unmanned spacecraft entered orbit, it was embarrassingly off course for a planned rendezvous with the International Space Station. While the Starliner made a successful landing in New Mexico on Sunday, its overall failure to reach the orbiting lab capped an atrocious year for Boeing and its embattled chief executive officer.