NASA is reducing its investment in Boeing’s beleaguered Starliner spacecraft, announcing Monday that it’s lowering the number of astronaut missions and opting to make the next trip to the International Space Station (ISS) a crewless one.
Boeing’s original $4.5 billion deal, a part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, entailed six operational flights bringing astronauts to and from the ISS once certified.
NASA has curtailed that to four flights, three with crews and one without, set for April 2026. The new arrangement includes two optional additional flights.
The revision reduces the contract’s value by $768 million for a new total of $3.732 billion, according to a NASA spokesperson. NASA has spent more than $2.2 billion….