Starliner
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Starliner’s Type A Wake-Up Call: When “Two Providers” Becomes a Safety Variable
On February 19, 2026, NASA did something agencies rarely do in public: it upgraded the historical record. In a NASA news release tied to a press conference, the agency formally declared Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner Crewed Flight Test (CFT) a “Type A mishap”—NASA’s highest mishap classification—despite the fact that the crew survived and the mission ultimately…