{"id":637676,"date":"2019-11-14T21:48:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T01:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=637676"},"modified":"2019-11-14T21:48:21","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T01:48:21","slug":"boeing-received-unnecessary-contract-boost-for-astronaut-capsule-watchdog-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=637676","title":{"rendered":"Boeing received &#039;unnecessary&#039; contract boost for astronaut capsule, watchdog says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing&#8217;s multibillion dollar contract to build U.S. astronaut capsules received an &#8220;unnecessary&#8221; extension from NASA, a watchdog report said on Thursday, the latest management blunders in the agency&#8217;s program to restart domestic human spaceflight. NASA agreed to pay Boeing Co a $287 million premium for &#8220;additional flexibilities&#8221; to accelerate production of the company&#8217;s Starliner crew vehicle and avoid an 18-month gap in flights to the International Space Station. NASA&#8217;s i<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=56MI_Hbk08c:99Fy1Yn28q0:yIl2AUoC8zA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=56MI_Hbk08c:99Fy1Yn28q0:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=56MI_Hbk08c:99Fy1Yn28q0:V_sGLiPBpWU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~r\/reuters\/scienceNews\/~3\/56MI_Hbk08c\/boeing-received-unnecessary-contract-boost-for-astronaut-capsule-watchdog-says-idUSKBN1XP05A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Boeing received &#8216;unnecessary&#8217; contract boost for astronaut capsule, watchdog says<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Reuters Science News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing&#8217;s multibillion dollar contract to build U.S. astronaut capsules received an &#8220;unnecessary&#8221; extension from NASA, a watchdog report said on Thursday, the latest management blunders in the agency&#8217;s program to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=637676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=637676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=637676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=637676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}