NASA chief blames former leadership, Boeing
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NASA admits Starliner failures
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A NASA investigation of Boeing’s bungled 2024 flight to the International Space Station, which stranded two astronauts there, revealed rampant mistrust and insufficient testing.
As such, Starliner’s homecoming that September was in autonomous mode and the astronauts remained on the ISS. It wasn’t until March 2025 that the astronauts came back via SpaceX’s Crew-9 mission. Williams retired at the end of 2025.
The Nasa mission that left astronauts stuck in space was one of the agency’s worst ever failures, it has said. In 2024, Nasa astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunny Williams conducted the first crewed
NASA on Thursday announced it has formally classified the 2024 crewed flight of the Starliner spacecraft as a “Type A” mishap, an acknowledgement that the test flight was a serious failure.