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NASA Nears Decision Time on Boeing Starliner’s Fate
There’s now a significant chance the spacecraft's crew will have to return to Earth on a different one—and maybe not until next year.
With no consensus on the safety of the Starliner crew capsule, NASA officials said Wednesday they need another week or two before deciding whether to bring two astronauts back to Earth on Boeing's spacecraft or extend their stay on the International Space Station until next year. But after software setbacks, parachute concerns, and previous problems with its propulsion system, Boeing's Starliner program is running more than four years behind SpaceX's Dragon crew spacecraft, which flew astronauts to the station for the first time in 2020. Engineers are still investigating the root cause of why five of Starliner's 28 reaction control system thrusters, supplied by Aerojet Rocketdyne, failed during approach to the space station the day after launch.
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