Company officials remain conspicuously silent after Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft returns

The summary

• Boeing officials have made few public comments about the company's Starliner spacecraft in the past six weeks.

• The capsule returned to Earth without a crew on Saturday, ending a troubled test flight.

• Boeing representatives were not present at the briefing after the landing, although they were originally scheduled to attend.

Just over an hour after Boeing's Starliner capsule returned to Earth unmanned, NASA held a standard post-landing briefing to discuss the end of the tumultuous test flight.

Conspicuously absent from the early Saturday morning meeting: not a single Boeing ...