Nasa has decided that Butch and Sunny will return with crew nine next February, and that Starliner will return uncrewed, and the specifics in the schedule will be discussed momentarily. Boeing has worked very hard with NASA to get the necessary data to make this decision. We We want to further understand the root causes and understand the design improvements so that the Boeing Starliner will serve as an important part of our assured crew access to the ISS. I have just talked to the new Boeing CEO, Kelly Orteberg. I have expressed this to him. I told him, how well Boeing worked with our team to come to this decision. And he expressed to me an intention that They will continue to work the problems once Starliner is back safely, and that we will have our redundancy and our crude access to the space station. This whole discussion, remember, is put in the context of we have had mistakes done in the past. We lost two space shuttles as a result of there not being a culture in which information could come forward. We have been very solicitous all of our employees that if you have some objection, you come forward.

Space flight is risky, even at its safest and even at its most routine.

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