NASA Scales Back Boeing Starliner Missions To The ISS

Boeing Starliner on United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket

Boeing is hoping to return the Starliner to orbit in the spring for another demonstration mission without crew, nearly two years after the troubled 2024 crewed flight test.

Credit: United Launch Alliance
It has been six years since Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner made its orbital debut. That uncrewed flight test was to be followed quickly by a piloted demonstration mission to the International Space Station, certification and station crew ferry flights. Instead, with International Space Station (ISS)...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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