NY Times by Kenneth Chang 7/7/2020
After a couple of rounds of investigation and some soul-searching, NASA and Boeing believe that they have identified what went wrong during a troubled test flight of an uncrewed Boeing spacecraft designed to carry NASA astronauts.
In addition to the software errors that slipped through undetected and were not fixed before the spacecraft was launched in December, NASA officials admitted that because the agency had worked closely with Boeing for decades, it might not have been paying attention to the company as closely as it should have while it was also placing more scrutiny on SpaceX, which also built a capsule for carrying people to the space station.
“We were, I would say, a little more used to the Boeing process,†Steve Stich, manager of NASA’s commercial crew program, said during a news conference on Tuesday. “It’s one that we have used in the past on successful NASA programs like space shuttle and the International Space Station.â€
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