Report: Boeing Starliner Future with NASA Unclear
The report says helium leaks, propulsion failures and parachute anomalies have delayed certification and raised doubts about future crew flights.
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The verdict is final: Boeing's Starliner capsule will not be certified for operational manned flights until 2027, ten years after the initial target set in 2017. A financial disaster for the American manufacturer.
The report about the disaster around the Starliner capsule has finally come out. The general inspection of the Nasa goes back to a series of bad decisions, largely due to the too much confidence given to the manufacturer on the basis of his past achievements. He was expected for more than a year:
NASA’s Single Crew Taxi Problem: OIG Confirms Starliner Slipping to 2027
Starliner Docked at ISS. NASA ImageWhat This Means: A National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) report released June 30, 2026 confirms what the supply chain community has known for two years: NASA is operationally dependent on a single commercial crew provider through at least 2027, with Boeing’s Starliner certification now expected to slip to 2027 at the earliest. Helium leaks and propulsion failures…
Boeing Starliner: Commercial Crew Crisis?
While SpaceX ultimately worked through a variety of its own technical challenges and is currently providing continuous crew transportation to the ISS, Boeing’s and NASA’s development efforts to certify the Starliner continue to face challenges that have delayed progress and increased both costs and risks to sustained crew transportation to the ISS through 2030. Since […]
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