Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Boeing's Starliner spacecraft will only fly cargo to the International Space Station after NASA changed the contract with Boeing that also cut the number of missions for the craft.
On Monday, NASA announced the update to the 2014 contract. It originally said there would be six crewed flights to the ISS after a successful uncrewed flight test. Now the contract says the total will be four missions, but two will be options.
In November 2024, NASA announced that it and Boeing had agreed to modify the Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contract.
Last year, Starliner flew to the space station with astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, who were supposed to stay for eight days. But issues with the spacecraft made it unsafe for them to return via Starliner. So they had to be brought home nine months later via a SpaceX capsule.
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