NASA has been investigating the now-infamous Boeing Starliner incident since the story dominated headlines in late 2024 and early 2025. The Starliner suffered malfunctions that stranded now-retired astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore for months. The agency has now released a report on what happened, taking responsibility for its role in the mission’s failure.  “The Boeing Starliner spacecraft has faced challenges throughout its uncrewed and most recent crewed missions,” said NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman in a NASA blog post on Thursday. “While Boeing built Starliner, NASA accepted it and launched two astronauts into space. The technical difficulties encountered during docking with the International Space Station were very apparent.” NASA has now labelled the mission a “Type A mishap,” which is defined as a “total direct cost of mission failure and property damage greater than $2 million or more,” or where “crewed aircraft hull loss has occurred.” Both of those apply to the Starliner, which has cost the agency $4.2 billion to date.  Isaacman also released a letter addressed to all NASA employees on X. The letter outlined various …