“finalize procedures for bringing the Boeing spacecraft – and its two crew members – back to Earth”
So what I see is Boeing is too proud to ask SpaceX to bring two astronauts back to earth....I guess their reputation (whatever that now is) is more important than two lives.
It appears that this word salad thing is catching on.
> I guess their reputation (whatever that now is) is more important than two lives.
Perhaps they’ll just clean up all the loose ends by designating those two as whistleblowers.
Article: “finalize procedures”
What matters is whether those “procedures” actually work.
:-)
Their reputation will take a bigger hit if they kill the two passengers than it would if they hire SpaceX to bring the humans home.
If NASA was smart, they'd tell Boeing to hire SpaceX and to bring the Boeing craft back empty. If Boeing makes a safe return on the test flight, continue to throw good money after bad; if not, cancel the contract.
But NASA has shown poor decision making skills since they got rid of the Nazis.