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NASA and Boeing Scale Back Starliner Missions After Fumbled Astronaut Flight

Boeing’s troubled Starliner spacecraft will fly again early next year. This time it won’t be carrying astronauts. Starliner ran into a string of technical problems during its June 2024 debut flight ...
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NASA reduces flights on Boeing's Starliner after botched astronaut mission

FILE PHOTO: A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying two astronauts aboard Boeing's Starliner-1 Crew Flight Test (CFT), is launched on a mission to the International Space Station, in Cape ...
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NASA Starliner astronaut Suni Williams: Photos of Crew-9 member who was ‘stuck’ in space

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams said goodbye to #SpaceStationLife, shedding their “stuck in space” persona. Although, according to NASA, a "rescue mission" was never needed for the ...
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SpaceX launches NASA crew after Starliner delays

Astronauts sidelined for the past year by Boeing’s Starliner trouble blasted off to the International Space Station on Friday, getting a lift from SpaceX. The U.S.-Japanese-Russian crew of four ...
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NASA Is Investigating Boeing Starliner’s “In-Flight Anomalies”

NASA and Boeing are still working to get the aerospace giant’s plagued Starliner spacecraft back off the ground. It’s been just over half a year since Boeing’s issues-riddled shuttle came back from ...
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NASA: Starliner will only fly cargo for first mission to Space Station

Nov. 24 (UPI) --Boeing's Starliner spacecraft will only fly cargo to the International Space Station after NASA changed the contract with Boeing that also cut the number of missions for the craft. On ...
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NASA Won’t Let Starliner Die Just Yet, Even After Boeing’s Space Fiasco

The Starliner saga may not be over just yet. Despite a failed test flight that left a crew stranded in space, NASA still hasn’t given up on Boeing’s ill-fated spacecraft. Starliner may get another ...
Ars Technica

NASA to put Starliner’s thrusters through an extensive workout before next launch

More than half a year after an empty Starliner spacecraft safely landed in a New Mexico desert, NASA and Boeing still have not decided whether the vehicle’s next flight will carry any astronauts. In ...
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NASA and Boeing cut Starliner missions to 4, delay first post-certification flight to 2026

NASA and Boeing have agreed to scale back the number of guaranteed crewed flights under Boeing’s Commercial Crew contract, modifying the original 2014 award from up to six operational missions to four ...
SpaceNews

NASA to fly only cargo on next Starliner mission under modified contract

Boeing's Starliner undocks from the International Space Station at the conclusion of the Crew Flight Test mission. Credit: NASA ALICANTE, Spain — NASA has revised its commercial crew contract with ...
USA Today

Inside NASA’s decision to keep astronauts in space: What’s next for Starliner spacecraft?

The future of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft remains marked by uncertainty now that its crew of two astronauts has finally returned to Earth on another company's vehicle. Officials at Boeing no doubt ...
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NASA reduces flights on Boeing's Starliner after botched astronaut mission

(Reuters) -NASA on Monday slashed the number of astronaut missions on Boeing's Starliner contract and said the spacecraft's next mission to the International Space Station will fly without a crew, ...