Promise Ledger
Aerospace company; builds the Starliner crew spacecraft. These are the dated public commitments by Boeing and its people that we could source to a primary, with what happened.
2 entries: 1 met late; 1 condition not met.
Plain counts, not a grade or a ranking. A short record is not a complete one. Updated Sep 28, 2026; each entry shows the date it was last checked against its source; scoring rules on the methodology page.
This first release is a selection, and a short record is not a complete record. Each programme milestone enters the ledger at its earliest dated public commitment we can find in a primary source, for governments and companies alike. Later dated commitments for the same milestone are shown on that one entry as a revision chain, oldest first, rather than as separate entries.
Met late · worded as a target
Launch · Boeing
“Orbital Flight Test (OFT) is currently targeted for Dec. 17”
Said . Source: Boeing: Boeing Statement Regarding OIG Report on NASA's Commercial Crew Program (Nov 18, 2019, Certification bullet)
Outcome: Starliner launched on the uncrewed Orbital Flight Test on 2019-12-20; a mission timing anomaly used too much fuel to reach the space station, and the capsule landed at White Sands on 2019-12-22 (Boeing). (, 3 days after the deadline)
Outcome source: Boeing: Boeing Starliner Completes First Orbital Flight Test with Successful Landing (Dec 22, 2019)
Checked against the source on Sep 26, 2026. Report a correction or send a response to this entry ·
Condition not met · worded as a target
Crewed milestone · Boeing
“following a successful flight, we are well positioned to fly our first crew in early 2020”
Said . Source: Boeing: Boeing Statement Regarding OIG Report on NASA's Commercial Crew Program (Nov 18, 2019, Certification bullet)
Context: "Flight" refers to the uncrewed Orbital Flight Test, then targeted for Dec. 17, 2019.
Condition: following a successful flight (the condition did not happen)
Outcome: The Orbital Flight Test (2019-12-20) did not reach the space station. On 2020-04-06 Boeing said it had "chosen to refly our Orbital Flight Test" before flying astronauts. The first crewed Starliner flight launched on 2024-06-05.
Outcome source: Boeing: Boeing Statement on Starliner's Next Flight (Apr 6, 2020)
Checked against the source on Sep 26, 2026. Report a correction or send a response to this entry ·
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Cite as: SpaceNexus. (2026). SpaceNexus Promise Ledger (Version 2026-09-28) [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22985970. Licensed CC BY 4.0.
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