Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft delivers
NASA astronauts to the space station

Good news. We now have TWO American rocket systems which can support the Space Station, instead of paying a Russian dictator hundreds of millions to be a Uber service. with their 1960s (literally) model rockets and capsules.

Unfortunately, the NASA capsule flew on an Atlas V missile.....100% expended each flight and using a Russian built rocket motor. Still not done with shipping tens of millions to Russia for space station support.

Good thing the ISS crews weren't waiting for the Starliner to bring them some supplies. The station would look like the Donner Party, after the "party" was over...

AND, it was almost completely eclipsed by the launch of Elon Musk's SpaceX Starship megarocket from Boca Chica, Texas.

Good news...I know nothing about space stuff...but my grandson is talking space force and trip to Mars when he's finished with college....

How special, Boeing actually built something that works................

Re #7, yes, that along with 500 airliners per year which are very, very nearly 100% reliable, given proper airline maintenance. I am amazed at the ease with which the media can blow up a few incidents, like incompetent third world pilots flying damaged, unrepaired aircraft that any COMPETENT pilot could have flown in perfect safety, into the ground, and one legitimate door plug maintenance error (no injuries to anyone) into "Boeing is incompetent and all Boeing's are junk" in such a short time span. Goebbels was really onto something, the Big Lie does work for an amazing number of people. I guarantee that this engineer and pilot would rather fly on a Boeing every time than an Airbus any time. A particular Boeing MIGHT possibly have been maintained improperly, but 100% of all Airbus aircraft have bafflingly complex and confusing 100% computer controlled flight control systems where, effectively, the pilot is asking the computers if maybe they'll let him turn left now, or slow down now. And sometimes the Airbus computers just say the equivalent of "I'm sorry Dave, I can't let you do that....." and everybody dies in what was basically a "perfectly good aircraft" because the pilots can't figure out what in hell the airplane's computer system is doing to them in time.

Re 35, flight to Mars will be a huge human adventure, but I am fairly certain that it will be a total dead end for those who imagine 'colonies on Mars'. Musk is a great visionary and entrepreneur but he cannot change the facts of Mars which are sadly far from the science fiction stories. The conditions at the surface are very nearly as harsh as the moon with the difference between the very slight atmosphere on Mars and zero atmosphere on the Moon being largely theoretical, of negligible practical difference. And what little "air" exists is 95% carbon dioxide, almost no free oxygen. And almost zero water on the whole planet. Humans don't do well without water and oxygen, and having to haul ALL of that from Earth every time is too expensive for more than a tourist visit now and then. And energy? Solar panels put out 40% of what they do on Earth, and the seasons are far more variable, and dust covers panels rapidly, lowering output even more. Could you ship a million tons of nuclear reactor there? Sure, and it would work for 2 years before needing refueling. So, no water, no oxygen and very, very little energy. Yep a veritable paradise. A fantastic, wonderful adventure, no doubt. But I am sadly very skeptical that there will be any significant long term population of humans there unless huge deposits of underground ice are discovered, and a smart inventor finally makes a "Mr. Fusion" unit like the movie "Back to the Future 2". Neither is impossible. Both are highly improbable, unfortunately.

Like NJ slogan...Most of our politicians have not been indicted or like the congressman who won his primary after he had died...Most of our politicians have not already died. Boeing's new slogan could be...most of our planes have not lost a door in flight. or lost a tire during take-off.

"Most" means one did and 1200 didn't. EVER.