The Boeing Co Starliner spacecraft that failed in its mission to reach the Inter...
- The Boeing Co Starliner spacecraft that failed in its mission to reach the International Space Station was due to barrel down to the Earth’s surface early on Sunday with the daunting task of landing safely.
Boeing and NASA officials said they still do not understand why software caused the unmanned craft to miss the orbit required to rendezvous with the space station following its successful launch on Friday. “Entry, descent and landing is not for the faint of heart,” Jim Chilton, senior vice president of Boeing’s space division, said in a Saturday conference call with reporters. “Make no mistake, we still have something to prove here on entry.”
The Starliner’s debut launch to orbit was a milestone test for Boeing. The company is vying with SpaceX, the privately held rocket company of billionaire high-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, to revive NASA’s human spaceflight capabilities. SpaceX carried out a successful unmanned flight of its Crew Dragon capsule to the space station in March.
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