This is John Batcher, conversation with good colleague Bob Zimmerman who keeps the website behind the black about Starliner, which remains at ISS two astronauts to return.

This is the maiden voyage of Starliner with astronauts on board.

There have been delays and Bob has careful remarks about what those delays

mean, why they're happening and how the impression of starliner troubles could have been avoided.

There's Bob Zimmerman behind the black on starliner still at ISS more of this tonight.

All right there's several issues here.

One you have Boeing.

There's quality control problems in Boeing.

This capsule shouldn't have the kind of problems

it's having at this stage of the game not with two demo

Unmanned demo missions not with several years delay not with all this time and money spent this shouldn't be having these kept problems but it is that's Boeing there's a question there that's first second

is NASA NASA's management is making some really stupid decisions in this whole

matter for example when the first manned dragon capsule came to ISS, they planned a two month stay, but at that time

they knew that the return date was variable, but they didn't keep announcing additional delays

days at a time incrementally because that gives the impression there's a problem.

Instead they planned for two months and but they said this is a variable data could change at any time and then as they got close they said you know

we're extended for a week for weather reasons and for other reasons and that was fine. But here what NASA is doing is releasing these

delays incrementally. They would have been much better off when they launched to say

the return date right from the start is variable.

It could be in July, it could be sooner, we're going to see how this plays out.

And then it wouldn't feel so much off the cuff or improvised and not thought out.