Long-delayed Boeing Starliner ready for first piloted flight to the International Space Station

[DavidDvorkin]

6. Boeing has been a major NASA contractor since before Apollo

And as with all of those big companies, the aerospace part is run separately from everything else. NASA oversight doesn't exist on the commercial side, but it certainly does on the civilian aerospace side. (Same thing for Air Force contracts by Boeing and other such companies.)

Boeing's commercial aviation shortcomings are irrelevant to the Starliner. If Starliner does end up having serious problems, it will be for other reasons.