Top
image credit: Thank You / Flickr

Boeing’s Starliner Set to Launch, Giving Company a Do-Over in Space

Boeing Co.’s next space launch this week will give it a shot at proving it can still pull off big missions.

The aerospace giant is set on Friday to again launch its Starliner space capsule without crew on board, a year and a half after a software error botched an earlier attempt to dock with the International Space Station and capped a string of Boeing failures.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration needs another way to transport astronauts and cargo to the space station, officials said. Currently, NASA relies on Russian rockets and Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, which beat Boeing in the race to get astronauts into space on a commercially owned and operated capsule.

Read More on The Wall Street Journal