NASA leadership on Thursday outlined how 2024’s glitch-plagued Boeing Starliner mission jeopardized astronaut welfare and the space agency’s culture of safety and accountability

NASA administrator ⁠Jared Isaacman on ​Thursday ripped into Boeing ‌and agency leadership ‌for ⁠their ⁠handling of the botched Starliner spacecraft ​mission that left two astronauts stuck ​on the International Space ⁠Station ⁠for nearly ⁠a year.

NASA is putting the botched 2024 test flight of Boeing Co.’s Starliner capsule in the same category of disaster as the Challenger and Columbia shuttle accidents, underscoring the dramatic failures that kept a pair of astronauts stuck in space for nine months.

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