The safety panel is recommending an independent review of Boeing’s Starliner program, saying a 'number of open risks' remain ahead of crewed test.
, in which Starliner reached the ISS and performed a successful return to Earth. This set the stage for CFT, which was supposed to happen this past February, and then in March, and now on July 21. But now this date might be in jeopardy should NASA take ASAP up on its recommendation to form an independent review.In terms of the open risks, Sanders said some have been on the to-do list for quite some time, while some have only cropped up recently.
Both NASA and Boeing have been quiet about Starliner since the updated launch date was announced this past March. Starliner is “largely ready for flight,” Steve Stich, manager of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, reporters at the time. He admitted that tests with the parachute system still needed to be completed, but the team has “no issues or concerns.”It’s critical that NASA “not succumb to pressure, even unconsciously,” to get CFT off the ground before “adequately addressing all of the remaining impediments to certification,” Sanders said yesterday.
We’ll have to wait and see what happens next. NASA wants to get Starliner certified sooner rather than later, but the space agency is not under intense pressure to do so given the reliability of Crew Dragon. Given Boeing’s poor performance to date on the program, and given ASAP’s advice, perhaps NASA should heed the recommendation. Human lives are literally at stake.
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