{"id":306472,"date":"2025-11-24T22:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T22:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/306472\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T22:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T22:41:07","slug":"boeing-starliner-missions-cut-after-botched-astronaut-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/306472\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing Starliner Missions Cut After Botched Astronaut Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/29638Z:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">NASA<\/a> cut the planned missions of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/BA:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Boeing Co.<\/a>\u2019s Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station from six to four, following a highly publicized <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-06-06\/nasa-delays-next-flight-of-boeing-s-alternative-to-spacex-dragon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">botched test flight<\/a> last year and as the orbiting lab heads for retirement by the end of the decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Originally, NASA had contracted Starliner to perform six missions that would carry crew to and from the ISS for months-long stays. Now, NASA and Boeing are mutually modifying the contract, the space agency said on Monday, with Starliner now tasked with performing four definitive missions and two optional ones. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA cut the planned missions of Boeing Co.\u2019s Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station from six to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[174565,2942,64,63,126519,99,79974,123314,18461,4217,1449,68808,128,285],"class_list":["post-306472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-aerospace-industry","tag-americas","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boeing-co-the","tag-business","tag-cargo","tag-industrials","tag-industries","tag-infrastructure","tag-materials","tag-national-aeronautics-and-space-administration","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}