Boeing is ready to try flying its spaceship to the space station for NASA once again, after failing

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its first attempt

Next week, Boeing's Starliner spaceship will attempt to redeem itself after botching its last major test flight.

The company's eventual goal is to fly astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA, the way SpaceX already does. Both companies developed their launch systems through NASA's Commercial Crew Program, a competition that awarded funding to private companies in order to develop new astronaut-ready spacecraft.

But before carrying people, the Starliner has to complete an uncrewed test flight to and from the ISS as part of NASA's certification process. Boeing first attempted this flight in December 2019, but it turned out that one of the spaceship's clocks was set 11 hours ahead of schedule. The clock prompted the spaceship's engines to fire too vigorously, too early - a move meant to come at a later stage of the mission. That caused the spaceship to burn through 25% of its fuel, forcing Boeing to skip docking with the space station in order to save the Starliner from total failure.

Now, the company is confident that it has fixed the problems with its spaceship, so it's time for the do-over.

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