NASA likely to significantly delay the launch of Crew 9 due to Starliner issues

This is flabbergasting:

>Three separate, well-placed sources have confirmed to Ars that the current flight software on board Starliner cannot perform an automated undocking from the space station and entry into Earth’s atmosphere.

When I read this in the article I shouted "What!" with mouth dropped open. Everyone outside Boeing (when NASA learned of this is unclear) thought that, if Wilmore and Williams have to return home by Crew Dragon, at least the Starliner they flew up could be brought down remotely like the two unmanned test craft were. Remote operation is, I presume, a requirement of the Commercial Crew contract.

The end of the article strongly hints that said inability contributed to Boeing's remarkably public effort to persuade NASA to return Wilmore and Williams in Starliner.

Maybe they can send up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robonaut again to do the undocking.

the fact NASA has been lying to the public for months makes it even worse. Going to be beautiful when they have to beg SpaceX to bail them out. Just shut Boeing down at this point, they are a failed organization