Boeing Faces Pressure to Deliver as NASA Ditches Crew Dragon

NASA is racing to find an alternative to SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft as it prepares to decommission the vehicle that has been ferrying astronauts to the International Space Station for years. The stakes are high, with NASA needing a reliable way to reach the ISS in low Earth orbit.

SpaceX plans to stop launching Dragon and shift its focus to its mega-rocket, Starship, but company president Gwynne Shotwell didn't commit to keeping the vehicle flying, saying SpaceX is not 'retiring it today.'

Shotwell specifically called out Boeing, arguing they should fly their capsule because 'the government paid a lot of money for that.'