NASA: Starliner Flight Test ‘High-Visibility Close Call’

Irene Klotz March 06, 2020
The Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft after landing in White Sands, New Mexico, on Dec. 22, 2019.
Credit: NASA
CAPE CANAVERAL—A independent team that analyzed software errors during the debut flight test of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner recommended 61 actions that Boeing and NASA should take before the capsule flies again, prompting Doug Loverro, the new head of NASA’s human spaceflight division, to deem the...
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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