
Boeing Defense, Space and Security President and CEO Leanne Caret gives remarks during a NASA event announcing the astronauts assigned to crew the first flight tests and missions of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon, Friday, Aug. 3, 2018 at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Boeing Defense, Space and Security President and CEO Leanne Caret receives an American flag from NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine during a NASA event announcing the astronauts assigned to crew the first flight tests and missions of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon, Friday, Aug. 3, 2018 at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The flag is to be flown to the International Space Station onboard the test flight of Starliner and retrieved later during the first mission of the Starliner. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Vice President Mike Pence, right, Boeing President and CEO Leanne Caret, left, and NASA astronaut Bob Behnken, center, view a model of the Boeing Starliner spacecraft and United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket during a tour of the company’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on Feb. 21, 2018. During his visit, Pence chaired a meeting of the National Space Council in the high bay of the center's Space Station Processing Facility. The council's role is to advise the president regarding national space policy and strategy, and review the nation's long-range goals for space activities.