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Boeing’s Starliner launch – delayed again – will be an important milestone for commercial spaceflight

  • Written by Wendy Whitman Cobb, Professor of Strategy and Security Studies, Air University
imageBoeing's Starliner spacecraft on approach to the International Space Station during an uncrewed test in 2022. Bob Hines/NASA

Already years late, Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft continues to face delays as it prepares to launch NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams into space. The latest delay came as a problem with its ride to orbit,...

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