Boeing's Former CEO Dennis Muilenburg Said In 2017 His Company Will Beat Elon Musk To Mars. 7 Years Later, It Has Been Forced To Abandon NASA Astronauts At ISS, Who Will Now Be Rescued By SpaceX

In December 2017, Boeing’s then-CEO Dennis Muilenburg said that the first person who set foot on Mars would get there on a Boeing rocket, beating Elon Musk‘s SpaceX. But nearly seven years later, NASA is turning to SpaceX to return the astronauts who went to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft.