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, an agency official demurred when asked about a mission update from earlier this week that appeared to put the leaky craft on ice after itsthat its upcoming crew rotation missions dubbed Crew-10 and Crew-11 to the ISS will make use of SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft, which was developed under the same Commercial Crew program as Boeing's plagued Starliner. Aspoints out, the former mission was initially meant to involve Starliner, which has yet to be certified for flight.
Whether that means the space agency has given up on Starliner for good remains unclear at best, but it's certainly not a vote of confidence in the aerospace giant's spacecraft. In its announcement, NASA said that "the timing and configuration of Starliner’s next flight will be determined once a better understanding of Boeing’s path to system certification is established.". "We need to have a decision: do we need another test flight?", NASA has been playing a space age game of musical chairs, trying to find a way to bring the Starliner astronauts home.
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