BOEING IS HAVING A BAD DECADE: NASA, Boeing announce Starliner crewed test mission pushed to February. “While planning is going well, a CFT mission to the International Space Station planned to be the first flight with astronauts on Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner, originally scheduled for this fall, has been pushed back to February.”

I remember back in the ’90s, when the consensus was that Boeing was great in every way — which in retrospect, was about the time it started to go downhill.

UPDATE: A reader emails: “It pretty much started with the Rockwell aerospace and McDonnell Douglas
mergers in the mid 90s. It’s a long story, but somehow the MDAC people ended up running the company, and they started running it into the ground, including moving HQ from Seattle to Chicago, and putting the bean counters instead of the engineers in charge.”

Yeah, that’s the story as I understand it too.