Raised eyebrows as Boeing reportedly mulls sale of stellar space enterprise

Company that helped build Nasa's Saturn V rockets said to be keen to focus on fixing problems in core aircraft business

For six decades, Boeing has been among the marquee names in human spaceflight.

The company helped build Nasa's mighty Saturn V rockets that put man on the moon; it was a key contractor during the space shuttle era and international space station operations; and its engines are powering the agency's next leap for the stars, the peerless Space Launch System.