NASA and Boeing to Brief Media Monday on Starliner's Path Forward

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman and Boeing leadership will hold a news conference at 3 p.m. EDT on Monday, Sept. 28, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, to discuss Starliner's development and plans for regular crew flights to the International Space Station, NASA announced Friday.

The briefing panel includes Isaacman, Dana Weigel (manager of NASA's Low Earth Orbit Program), NASA astronaut Woody Hoburg, and John Mulholland, Boeing's vice president and program manager for Commercial Crew, according to the NASA announcement. The conference will stream live at nasa.gov/live.

The briefing comes after a rough stretch for the program. NASA classified the 2024 crewed Starliner test flight as a Type A mishap, the same designation given to the Challenger and Columbia Space Shuttle disasters, CNN reported in February. Isaacman said at the time that Starliner should not have flown with crew when it did. As of late June, the timeline for the next Starliner mission, an uncrewed flight called Starliner-1, remained under review and could be a year or more away, Spaceflight Now reported, citing an Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel meeting where member Kent Rominger said propulsion system issues were still being worked through.

What Monday's briefing will actually confirm about the Starliner-1 launch date is not yet known. Media credentialed for the Crew-13 mission may attend in person; others can request dial-in details from the Kennedy newsroom at ksc-newsroom@mail.nasa.gov no later than one hour before the call, NASA said.

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