In damning report, watchdog paints troubling picture of relationship between NASA and Boeing
(Washington Post Technology)

NASA agreed to pay the company an additional $287.2 million as part of Boeing´s multi-billion-dollar contract to develop a spacecraft capable of flying astronauts to the International Space Station to help it speed up the company´s launch schedule. But the payment could have been easily avoided `through simple changes to the flight manifest,` NASA´s Inspector General wrote in the report.