This is John Batstra, conversation with Bob Zimmerman, my good friend who keeps the website

behind the black about Starliner.

Boeing's Space Capsul, now at ISS and prevent it from coming down because of safety concerns with its behavior if it

undocks from ISS and is returned to Earth with astronauts on board. And now speculating about bringing it down without astronauts leaving the on focus on one detail which is what does it cost who's paying for this starliner has

had a series of delays and Bob answers very carefully who's paying for starliner

stuck at iSS unproved for return with people on board?

Unproved period.

More of this later.

No, that's the one thing about Boeing's contract.

It's a fixed price contract.

They got $4.2 billion to make Star Line operational.

They have not made it operational yet.

And so they have actually had to dig into

Boeing's pockets to the tune of like 2.5 billion dollars that's money lost they

get make a profit on Stalin if a Boeing is almost impossible because they have dug in so

much extra cash that even if they start selling lots of tickets down the road

including to NASA I don't know how they can get that money back.