NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine later told reporters the Starliner's on board clock was out of sync.
This handout photo released by NASA shows Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis , left, Tory Bruno, president and CEO of United Launch Alliance, and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine watch as a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft onboard launches from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Friday, Dec. 20, 2019, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The autonomously flown test flight was a key part of NASA’s plans to end US dependence on Russia for space rides, and its failure deals a fresh reputational blow to Boeing as it faces a safety crisis in its commercial air division. NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine later told reporters the Starliner’s on board clock was out of sync, “and that anomaly resulted in the vehicle believing that the time was different than it actually was.”
Starliner will instead return to Earth, landing at NASA’s White Sands facility in New Mexico on Sunday morning around 7.30am local time . Both companies are running two years behind schedule but appear almost ready, and approval now rests on the successful completion of final tests. A recent report by NASA’s inspector general said the cost per astronaut comes to about $90 million for Boeing, against $55 million for SpaceX, while the US currently pays Russia more than $80 million for the same.
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