NASA, Boeing Delay Crewed Starliner Flight Over Safety Concerns
- Recent inspections found flammable tape, parachute issues
- Delays have cost Boeing as much as $883 million since 2020
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing's Starliner spacecraft aboard ahead of the Orbital Flight Test-2 mission in May 2022.
Photographer: Joel Kowsky/NASA/Getty Images
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NASA and Boeing Co. said they were standing down from plans to send a crewed flight test of its Starliner spacecraft to and from the International Space Station.
This is the latest of several setbacks to Boeing’s Starliner program. It had planned to launch its test flight on July 21, which would have been Starliner’s first time transporting humans to space.