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

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8. They don't have that leeway on NASA contracts

What's much more likely is lax oversight, as with the Shuttle program, where companies were allowed to do their own inspections (that should have been done or at least overseen by NASA people). That's a recipe for disaster. But since the Challenger disaster, that's far less likely to happen again with NASA contracts.