https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/20/boeing_starliner/

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It has been a long and tortuous journey for Boeing's Calamity Capsule. The first launch, at the end of 2019, ended with Starliner not troubling the ISS thanks to a timing error that resulted in the spacecraft burning through its attitude control long before reaching the outpost.

The inevitable investigation found a catalog of errors

With so many problems (including the discovery that Boeing hadn't bothered with end-to-end testing) uncovered, and considering the failure to reach the ISS, a decision was taken to repeat the Orbital Flight Test.

It didn't go well.

The flight was expected last year, but only got as far as the launchpad before balky valves in the spacecraft's service module meant a trip back to the factory was required

While Boeing was quick to note that the spacecraft's Mission Elapsed Timer was working properly this time, not everything is behaving as expected. During a post-launch briefing, officials admitted that two of 12 thrusters are not working. One shut down almost immediately, and another stopped seconds later.

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It's unbelievable that Boeing are planning to make the next mission a manned flight considering they still have problems and the faulty valves still haven't been fixed. They seem to have as little regard for their astronauts as they do their passengers.

No one will remember the second crossing of the finishing line in a race already won. Only that it was years late, plagued with Boeing's typical engineering incompetence, having cost far more than SpaceX spent.

This was meant to be the project which showcased Boeing's excellence. Instead it proved the precise opposite, left Boeing a laughing stock in the industry, and half a billion in debt.