Nasa delivers harsh assessment of botched Boeing Starliner test flightNASA duo Suni Williams, left, and Butch Wilmore were stuck on the ISS for nine months. "Starliner has design and engineering deficiencies that must be corrected, but the most troubling failure revealed by this investigation is not hardware. But the administrator insisted that "Nasa will continue to work with Boeing, as we do all of our partners that are undertaking test flights." But this turned into nine months after propulsion problems emerged in orbit and the Starliner spacecraft was deemed unfit to fly them back. Both Boeing and SpaceX were commissioned to handle missions to the ISS more than a decade ago.

Source: Bangkok Post February 20, 2026 03:06 UTC