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Boeing making slow progress toward fixing software problems that plagued its 2019 Starliner test

NASA says the company has corrected 75 percent of the problems identified after last year’s flawed test.

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August 28, 2020 at 2:34 p.m. EDT
The Boeing Starliner spacecraft in White Sands, N.M., in December after its failed test flight. Boeing hopes to correct software problems that affected the first flight and repeat the test by the end of the year. (Bill Ingalls/AP)

Eight months after its spacecraft suffered problems that forced Boeing to cut short a key test flight, the company is in the “final stages” of correcting the software problems that plagued the mission, NASA said in a news release Friday.

Boeing has completed 75 percent of the 80 corrective actions that NASA and Boeing identified after investigating the test mission late last year that went awry from the moment the craft reached space.