Nasa on Thursday blamed what it called engineering vulnerabilities in Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft along with internal agency mistakes in a sharply critical report assessing a botched mission that left two astronauts stranded in space.
The US space agency labelled the 2024 test flight of the Starliner capsule a “Type A” mishap – the same classification of the deadly Challenger and Columbia shuttle disasters – a category that reflects the “potential for a significant mishap,” it said.
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Nasa ranks 2024 spacecraft mishap among its worst disasters
