Boeing’s Starliner lands safely after completing mission to space station (NYSE:BA)

Boeing (NYSE:BA) and NASA properly landed the Starliner spacecraft in the New Mexico desert on Wednesday, completing the uncrewed Orbital Flight Examination-2 to the Global Room Station to help demonstrate the system is prepared to fly astronauts.

Starliner landed at the U.S. Army’s White Sands Missile Vary four several hours just after departing the house station, wrapping up the six-day flight.

OFT-2 marks a significant growth milestone in Starliner’s progress, which has operate into many hurdles and delays given that 2019 that have value Boeing (BA) virtually $600M.

The up coming Starliner mission is envisioned to be the Crew Flight Check, or CFT, traveling its very first astronauts to the place station afterwards this 12 months or early next yr.

The Boeing (BA) is even now actively playing capture-up to Elon Musk’s SpaceX (House), which has flown four astronaut rotations to the place station and reportedly is increasing dollars in a new funding spherical that would benefit the firm at $125B.