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Boeing Will Send Its Starliner Crew to Space in Style
The shuttle’s astronauts are going to be decked out in a bold new take on the classic space suit.
Whether Boeing will be the first private company to develop and operate an American-made spacecraft for NASA’s International Space Station–bound astronauts remains unclear, but one thing looks certain: Come August 2018, the aerospace company that began in Seattle will send its shuttle’s crew in a bold new (and blue) take on the classic space suit.

Image: Boeing and Wikimedia Commons