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Boeing Starliner Space Capsule Faces a Shaky Commercial Future
- Years behind schedule; cost overruns about $1.5 billion
- May only fly six more missions for NASA under ISS contract
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Boeing Co,’s space taxi is finally about to carry its first astronauts to orbit, after years of delays and a botched test flight.
Its space capsule, the CST-100 Starliner, is scheduled to head to the International Space Station on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket May 6. It will carry two NASA astronauts, making it the first crewed flight for the vehicle and ULA’s first launch with humans on board.