Boeing to Re-Do Starliner Uncrewed Flight
Racing SpaceX to become the first private company to put astronauts in orbit for NASA, late last year Boeing (NYSE: BA) launched an uncrewed, remotely piloted Starliner spacecraft atop an Atlas V rocket on a mission to demonstrate capability to safely travel to and from the International Space Station (ISS).
Although the United Launch Alliance Atlas rocket performed as expected (Boeing is a part owner of ULA), the Starliner spacecraft failed to fire its engines at the correct time to achieve the "insertion" orbit necessary to reach ISS. Ultimately, Boeing was forced to call off the mission, and bring Starliner home, landing by parachute in the desert at White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico without ever reaching ISS.
Source Fool.com
