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taken them, so they're now four years behind spacex. i think now that they have gotten this flight off, i agree with derrick, this was a critical mission not just for nasa, but for boeing to demonstrate, to give them confidence to demonstrate they have the capability to do this. we're far from complete. we have got to get off the centar, do some tests on the cst 100 over the next day and tomorrow hopefully we'll have a perfect docking, spend eight days on the international space station and then undock and come home. the ultimate test is how does the spacecraft handle the intense hea...

Station. they're five years behind schedule. make no mistake about it, spacex has eaten boeing's lunch. boeing is well behind schedule, well behind spacex, but they have a contract for six more flights to the space station. and why is this flight important? it is a test flight. there are only two astronauts on board, instead of a normal contingent of three to four to five, whatever they decide to do in the future. they're going to try to demonstrate that they can manually fly this spaceship, that will be butch wilmore's assignment. they want to make sure they can manually fly it, not just on c...