NASA Chief Blasts Boeing, Classifies Starliner as 'Type A' Mishap in Scathing Report

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman slammed Boeing for failures with its Starliner spacecraft, classifying the crewed flight test as a 'Type A' mishap — the most serious category. Isaacman said the most troubling failure 'is not hardware' but the institutional failures that allowed an unsafe spacecraft to fly. The Starliner was deemed too unsafe to return its crew of two astronauts from the International Space Station.