{"id":92441,"date":"2026-02-23T10:10:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=92441"},"modified":"2026-02-23T10:10:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:10:43","slug":"starliner-astronaut-stranding-was-a-failure-comparable-to-challenger-class-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=92441","title":{"rendered":"Starliner astronaut stranding was a failure comparable to Challenger (class A)."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/20260220052635\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/19\/science\/starliner-boeing-nasa-iss.html#selection-819.63-823.0\">https:\/\/archive.ph\/20260220052635\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/19\/science\/starliner-boeing-nasa-iss.html#selection-819.63-823.0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;inadequate testing, proceeding with the flight when engineers did not fully understand earlier thruster malfunctions and inadequate oversight of Boeing by NASA.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They still don&#8217;t understand the thruster problem. The reiteration of NASA&#8217;s confidence in Boeing suggests they wish they had another option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/archive.ph\/20260220052635\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/19\/science\/starliner-boeing-nasa-iss.html#selection-819.63-823.0 &#8220;inadequate testing, proceeding with the flight when engineers did not fully understand earlier thruster malfunctions and inadequate oversight of Boeing by NASA.&#8221; They still don&#8217;t understand the thruster problem. The reiteration of NASA&#8217;s confidence in Boeing suggests they wish &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=92441\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28,40],"class_list":["post-92441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share","tag-ifttt","tag-pinboard-jgordon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92442,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92441\/revisions\/92442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}