Boeing’s Faulty Starliner Spacecraft Returns To Earth Safely

Boeing’s Starliner astronaut spacecraft landed safely in New Mexico, Sunday, December 22, following a failed unmanned mission.
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READ MORE: Boeing Co's Starliner astronaut spacecraft landed in the New Mexico desert on Sunday, the company said, after faulty software forced officials to cut short an unmanned mission aimed at taking it to the International Space Station.

The landing at 7:58 a.m. ET (1258 GMT) in the White Sands desert capped a turbulent 48 hours for Boeing's botched milestone test of an astronaut capsule that is designed to help NASA regain its human spaceflight capabilities.

"We hit the bull's-eye," a Boeing spokesman said on a livestream of the landing.

The landing will yield the mission's most valuable test data after failing to meet its core objective of docking to the space station.
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[KR-rbzg]

Congratulations on the recovery, not all has been lost and people are still employed to correct the issue. Adhere to good practices and as always safety first.

[brian-beeler]

Boeing's 737 MAX, the 777X and Starliner are all failures yet its CEO who made $30m last year still has a job and will make millions this year. Where's the accountability? I had a friend that got fired from a convenience store when his drawer was short about seven dollars.

[ninotravis]

Back to the future
Nixon stated that NASA should stress civilian applications but should not hesitate to note the military uses as well. He showed interest in the possibility of routine operations and quick reaction times, for he saw that these could allow the Shuttle to help in disasters such as earthquakes or floods. He also liked the idea of using the Shuttle to dispose of nuclear waste by launching it into space. Fletcher mentioned that it might become possible to collect solar power in orbit and beam it to earth in the form of electricity. Nixon replied that such developments tend to happen much more quickly than people expect, and that they should not hesitate to talk about them.

[carefullbob]

They rushed to compete with Airbus' new engine, alot of lives were lost. They recieved twice the money as any
Competitor recieved and still screwed up.

[SaukTrail]

The headline says it all "Faulty Starliner".

[redknight]

Where is the video where the flying disk flies to it ? I watched it live and they soon cut the feed when it appeared

[Kumquat_Lord]

The capsule wasn't faulty, it was a simple software bug that would have been solved if astronauts had been on board

[curtrapp]

There was nothing "faulty" with this spacecraft. I don't know why people feel the need to trash talk when something doesn't go exactly as planned. This is new technology. There were many failures before the first man flight took placed. You learn more from failures that from successes. So this probably provided more information than a successful flight.

[growforit]

Nasa calls there crash unscheduled landing, I had one once with a tree didn't cost billions.

[geelee]

Why do I see a guy approaching with rifle ?

[solus]

Costly bread and circus entertainment to keep the space voyage hoax alive