<ul><li>Elon Musk criticized Boeing on X ahead of its first astronaut flight to space.</li><li>Boeing built the Starliner spaceship in collaboration with NASA, and it's set to launch into space on Monday evening, carrying astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station.</li><li>SpaceX beat Boeing to the punch in 2020 when it became the first private company to fly astronauts in space and ended a nine-year hiatus in US human spaceflight.</li><li>Musk was sure to point this out in an X post on Monday, stating 'SpaceX finished 4 years sooner.'</li><li>Not only did SpaceX do it faster, its spaceship was also cheaper, costing NASA just $2.6 billion.</li></ul>

Elon Musk calls out Boeing's historic first crewed spaceflight, saying SpaceX beat them to the punch years ago

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