Boeing Starliner mishap labeled 1 of worst NASA disasters
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OTD in space - February 1: Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
On February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia fell apart as it returned to Earth after spending more than two weeks in space. The accident instantly killed all seven astronauts on board. This was the second fatal accident of the space shuttle program following the Challenger disaster in 1986,
American space agency NASA publishes the report into the only crewed flight of the Boeing Starliner so far, calls it a Type A mishap.
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