Boeing's Starliner: a saga marked by setbacks

Here is a recap of the setbacks and delays on Starliner's journey to fly a crew to the International Space Station -- and how it was unable to bring them back again. 2014: Nasa awards contract A decade ago NASA chose two companies, Boeing and SpaceX, to each develop a new spacecraft capable of transporting its astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). The US space agency asked both to be ready for 2017, as it sought to end its dependence on the Russian spacecraft it had used to ferry...