{"id":492326,"date":"2026-02-20T11:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/492326\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T11:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:58:08","slug":"nasa-classifies-the-incident-of-stranded-astronauts-as-a-serious-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/492326\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA classifies the incident of stranded astronauts as a serious event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SadaNews &#8211; The American space agency (NASA) classified the spacecraft malfunction that forced astronauts to stay at the International Space Station for about nine months longer than planned as a serious event.<\/p>\n<p>The space agency stated in a release on Thursday: &#8220;Due to the loss of maneuverability of the spacecraft while the crew approached the space station and the associated financial damages, NASA has classified the test flight as a Category A incident.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Category A incidents are the highest classification at NASA.<\/p>\n<p>NASA stated: &#8220;While there were no injuries and the mission regained control prior to docking, this higher-level designation acknowledges that there was a potential for a major accident.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The two American astronauts, Sunny Williams and Barry Wilmore, arrived at the International Space Station in early June 2024 on the first crewed test flight of Boeing&#8217;s Starliner vehicle. They were supposed to stay in space for just one week, but numerous technical issues with the spacecraft left them stranded.<\/p>\n<p>They eventually returned to Earth after nine months on a different spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>The statement indicated that an independent investigation found that a combination of &#8220;device malfunctions, qualification gaps, and piloting errors created risk conditions inconsistent with NASA&#8217;s human spaceflight safety standards.&#8221; The investigation into the technical causes is still ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SadaNews &#8211; The American space agency (NASA) classified the spacecraft malfunction that forced astronauts to stay at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,128,285,232492,232491],"class_list":["post-492326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-space","tag-232492","tag-232491"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492326","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=492326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}