international space station, the company praised the launch saying that's what tests are for, critical for gathering information to make key changes. others are saying, this is just another failed attempt to execute after a very difficult year for the company and the grounding of its 737 max jet following two fatal crashes. the test purchased in cape canaver canaveral, florida, a timing error kept it from orbit it would need to reach the space station. boeing couldn't immediately explain what happened. boeing is of course competing with spacex on the missions and that's emon musk's company. and spacex did a similar test in march. nasa administrator jim bridenstine says it has to do with automation. implying if humans had been on board, perhaps they could have detected the problem and stopped