We could have gotten to the point, I believe, where we could have returned on Starliner,” he said.
During an August 24 news briefing, NASA officials also indicated that Boeing disagreed with some of the space agency’s risk assessments.
There was “just a little disagreement (between NASA and Boeing) in terms of the level of risk,” NASA’s Commercial Crew Program manager Steve Stich said.
…And when you do things with spacecraft that have never been done before, just like Starliner, you’re going to find some things,” he added.
“In this case, we found some things that we just could not get comfortable with putting us back in the Starliner.”
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