Boeing, NASA Eye Starliner Uncrewed Return To Flight In December

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Irene Klotz
September 28, 2026

Starliner reached the International Space Station for a crewed flight test on June 6, 2024, but safety issues prompted NASA to return the capsule uncrewed.

Credit: NASA

CAPE CANAVERAL—More than two years after the troubled crewed flight test of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner space taxi, NASA and Boeing aim to return the spacecraft to flight with an uncrewed cargo run to the International Space Station (ISS) in late December or January. That flight test—the fourth in a…

Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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