NASA Trims Starliner Contract, Keeps Crew Off Next Flight

Irene Klotz November 24, 2025
NASA astronauts Mike Fincke, left, and Scott Tingle take a look inside the Starliner spacecraft that completed Boeing's Crew Flight Test --sans crew-- with a landing at the White Sands Missile Range’s Space Harbor on Sept. 6, 2024 local time/Sept. 7 Eastern.

NASA astronauts Mike Fincke, left, and Scott Tingle take a look inside the Starliner spacecraft that completed Boeing's Crew Flight Test—sans crew—with a landing at the White Sands Missile Range’s Space Harbor in New Mexico on Sept. 6, 2024, local time/Sept. 7 Eastern.

Credit: Aubrey Gemignani/NASA
CAPE CANAVERAL—Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner orbital spacecraft will make another uncrewed flight to the International Space Station (ISS) to demonstrate repairs in the wake of its troubled 2024 crewed flight test, NASA announced Nov. 24. NASA is also shaving its contract with Boeing for ISS crew ferry...
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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