US EditionNASA 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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About one week, two US astronauts will remain on board the ISS in 2024. However, things are not going as planned. Because of a breakdown, the two can only return to Earth nine months later. Now the investigation report is available - and it reveals serious omissions.
Nasa ranks 2024 spacecraft mishap among its worst disasters
Nasa on Thursday blamed what it called engineering vulnerabilities in Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft along with internal agency mistakes in a sharply critical report assessing a botched mission that left two astronauts stranded in space. The US space agency labelled the 2024 test flight of the Starliner capsule a “Type A” mishap - the same classification of the deadly Challenger and Columbia shuttle disasters - a category that reflects the “poten…
Report Blames NASA and Boeing for Botched Starliner Flight Test
Nearly two years after Boeing’s botched Starliner mission to the International Space Station, NASA put the mishap in the same category as the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters — and said the spacecraft wouldn’t carry another crew until dozens of corrective actions are taken.
NASA-Boeing Rift: Unveiling the Starliner Mission Debacle
NASA-Boeing Rift: Unveiling the Starliner Mission Debacle NASA has released a comprehensive report exposing the failures of Boeing's Starliner mission, which left two astronauts marooned on the International Space Station for nearly a year. The report highlights severe communication breakdowns and unprofessional behaviors between NASA and its long-standing contractor, Boeing, as they struggled to safely return the crew to Earth.In a scathing cri…
NASA's new director strongly criticized on Thursday Boeing and the U.S. Space Agency for the setbacks of Starliner's flight, which blocked two astronauts for months at the International Space Station.
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