NASA announced Thursday that it has reclassified Starliner's first astronaut taxi flight as a "Type A mishap" — the most serious kind, in the same category as the space shuttle Challenger and Columbia tragedies.
The first astronaut mission of Boeing's Starliner taxi was a bumpier ride than NASA wanted to admit at the time.
The agency announced today (Feb. 19) that it has reclassified Starliner's Crew Flight Test (CFT) as a "Type A mishap" — the most serious ... [4459 chars]