[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I will admit to being clueless about programing at that level, my teenage adventures with BASIC notwithstanding, but can’t Boeing send them the program? Granted it would probably take a while but not eight months.

[cgbg]

“can’t Boeing send them the program?”

The concept of uploading data is too white for Boeing.

Lol.

[Bonemaker]

I hate to ask but what are they eating/drinking?

[Vermont Lt]

Because the program likely hasn’t been written. As in, there is no program.

They are going to do the space equivalent of getting it rolling and then jumping out the open door.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I will admit to being clueless about programing at that level, my teenage adventures with BASIC notwithstanding, but can’t Boeing send them the program? Granted it would probably take a while but not eight months.

You can't test software in space. You can, but something always goes wrong the first number of times. A failure in space is death.

[curious7]

I heard they’re afraid the software update has a risk of bricking the Starliner, and they’d not be able to easily remove it from the docking port then. Of course, maybe that’s not true, unless they’re using H1Bs for their software.