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NASA boss blasts Boeing and space agency managers for Starliner’s botched astronaut flight
NASA’s report faults Boeing’s Starliner design and oversight failures for thruster issues that stranded astronauts for nine months, with 61 recommendations made to prevent future risks.
- On Feb. 19, 2026, NASA announced an independent investigation classified the Boeing Starliner mission a Type A mishap, with NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman leading the press conference.
- Earlier test flights in 2019 and 2022 had shown propulsion anomalies during rendezvous cascaded into multiple RCS thruster failures and a temporary loss of six-degree-of-freedom control.
- After ground hot-fire tests at White Sands, Wilmore and Williams ultimately returned in March 2025 via SpaceX Dragon, extending the mission from 8-14 days to 93 days.
- NASA said it will not fly another crew on Starliner until technical causes are understood, released a 311-page independent investigation report, and will brief Congress, while Boeing faces heavy program costs.
- Moving forward, Isaacman pledged to work with Boeing and preserve multiple crew transportation systems as NASA prepares the Artemis II mission, urging transparency by saying, 'To undertake missions that change the world, we must be transparent about both our successes and our shortcomings'.
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