BA - Up up and away: Space investment in focus as Boeing's Starliner gets ready for blastoff

2024-05-06 06:28:20 ET

After the space shuttle program was retired in 2011, NASA turned to private companies for space station deliveries. SpaceX began supply runs over a decade ago, before launching its first astronauts in 2020 and ending NASA's reliance on Russian spacecraft. It also beat Boeing ( NYSE: BA ) in the race to space under NASA's Commercial Crew Program after the U.S. aerospace giant, whose resume goes back to the Apollo moon missions, ran into issues and delays during flight testing and manufacturing....

For further details see: