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    But while SpaceX’s Dragon has conducting many astronaut ferrying missions, Boeing’s Starliner has been continually sidelined due to technical issues.

    A crewed Starliner mission with two NASA astronauts aboard was due to launch in April, until it was delayed to July; then the two firms announced at the beginning of June that the crewed test mission would be postponed yet again, this time due to issues with the capsule’s parachutes and the glass cloth tape that wraps around wire harnesses in the spacecraft.

    Steve Stich, a manager with NASA’s CCP, told reporters Monday that the team has made a “tremendous amount of progress” since the June update.

    Mark Nappi, Boeing’s Starliner program manager, said that the new parachute would not be delivered until around the beginning of December, with a drop test occurring in mid- to late-November.

    In spite of this late schedule, NASA and Boeing managers affirmed their confidence that Starliner will be able to fulfill all of the contracted missions under the CCP before the ISS decommissioning in 2030.

    Boeing has incurred nearly $900 million in losses due to delays in Starliner development as of October last year; no doubt that number will continue to climb until the capsule’s maiden commercial flight.


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