Editorial: Le Monde

• Astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams have been trapped in the International Space Station for over two months due to an issue with their spacecraft, Boeing's Starliner.
• A failure with five of the Starliner's twenty-eight thrusters has brought the spacecraft's reliability into question.
• Boeing has had several technical problems in the past, including an incident in 2019 when the Starliner failed to dock with the ISS.
• NASA has paid 4.2 billion dollars for the Starliner's first missions.
• NASA has outsourced spacecraft construction to the private sector, a move that is now showing its limitations.
• NASA is considering using SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule, Boeing's main competitor, to rescue the astronauts.

Conclusion: This incident highlights the limitations of outsourcing spacecraft construction to the private sector and raises concerns about the reliability of space industry providers like Boeing.

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