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NASA says data will guide whether astronauts return on troubled Starliner
The political implications for the White House are unmistakable even as NASA vows engineering and data alone will guide whether two astronauts return in the troubled Starliner.
As NASA weighs one of its most consequential decisions in years — whether to fly home a pair of astronauts on Boeing’s troubled Starliner spacecraft or on SpaceX’s more proven Dragon capsule — the specter of past tragedies looms large. The agency has repeatedly said that the decision, which is expected to come by next week, will be guided by hard data, rigorous engineering analysis and the safety of NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore. More recently, NASA officials have said the open disagreement among the teams and the fact that they are taking their time making a decision is a sign of the lessons learned after the fatal space shuttle Challenger and Columbia disasters.
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