In October, The Wall Street Journal reported that Boeing may shed its space business to focus on commercial aircraft and defense systems. This could be due in part to this summer’s test flight of its Starliner crew transport to the International Space Station (ISS), which adversely reshaped public opinion of the beleaguered aerospace titan.
But despite some of its bad publicity, Boeing’s six decades in space have helped to facilitate a permanent off-planet U.S. presence and enabled our first footsteps on the moon.
