DOH!!!
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Boeing's Starliner spacecraft won't reach the International Space Station as planned after its liftoff from Cape Canaveral early Friday, the result of a timing issue that caused the capsule to prematurely burn fuel.
Instead, the uncrewed capsule will be directed to land in White Sands, New Mexico, by sometime Sunday, a significant cutback of the objectives laid out for the mission known as Orbital Flight Test.
Had it been successful, the test would have paved the way for astronauts to launch on Starliner sometime in the first half of 2020.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said an investigation will be needed to determine whether or not Boeing will need to fly another uncrewed OFT mission.
(reminds me of the Hubble fiasco)>>>Shortly after the Hubble Space Telescope's launch in 1990, operators discovered that the observatory's primary mirror had an aberration that affected the clarity of the telescope's early images. ... Ultimately the problem was traced to miscalibrated equipment during the mirror's manufacture.
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I have CDO. It's like OCD but all the letters are in alphabetical order - AS THEY SHOULD BE. 
"Yesterday Belongs to History, Tomorrow Belongs to God, Today Belongs to Me"
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