Boeing Company (BA)

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"Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission, which is slated to launch to the space station on July 30 and arrive the next day. Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft will dock at Harmony's forward port, marking the first time two different U.S. commercial crew spacecraft will be docked to the space station at the same time, according to the statement.

The OFT-2 mission will be Boeing's second test flight attempt, designed to test the end-to-end capabilities of its Starliner spacecraft, including launch, docking, atmospheric re-entry and a desert landing in the western U.S. Boeing's first Starliner test flight launched in December 2019, but the spacecraft did not reach the station as planned due to a series of technical problems. "

While the upcoming test flight should be a huge milestone for Boeing, it is overshadowed by the fact that the first test flight failed miserably. And that upstart Spacex is already light years ahead. How did that happen?