NASA delays astronaut moon mission
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The Nasa mission that left astronauts stuck in space was one of the agency’s worst ever failures, it has said. In 2024, Nasa astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunny Williams conducted the first crewed
NASA's Jared Isaacman slammed Boeing for failures with its Starliner spacecraft, which was deemed unsafe to return its crew of two astronauts from the International Space Station
A NASA investigation of Boeing’s bungled 2024 flight to the International Space Station, which stranded two astronauts there, revealed rampant mistrust and insufficient testing.
As such, Starliner’s homecoming that September was in autonomous mode and the astronauts remained on the ISS. It wasn’t until March 2025 that the astronauts came back via SpaceX’s Crew-9 mission. Williams retired at the end of 2025.