NASA has spent billions of dollars so that it could have two commercial companies, Boeing and SpaceX, transporting astronauts on its behalf. Yesterday, NASA leaders announced that they don’t believe Starliner can bring Wilmore and Williams back safely. SpaceX, Boeing’s competitor, which has been ferrying astronauts to and from the space station for the past four years—no longer a scruffy start-up but a trusted government partner—will bring the astronauts home instead, in February of next year.