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 Boeing's Starliner crew capsule is set for another test in outer space. The transporter has been a headache for Boeing for the last 10 years with stuck valves, software glitches and communications.  It is a PR nightmare but NASA is sticking with it and the company because it needs a second way to get to the international space station now that the Russians have pulled out.  NASA is using SpaceX's crew capsule now and it is working well with less angst than Boeing's product.  SpaceX has demonstrated that a rocket company with less bureaucracy can successfully compete in the marketplace. It is a warning to traditional aerospace corporations that their days of cost-plus contracts are over.  Private enterprise can do it less expensively and more quickly.  Boeing had better get it right this time.