Boeing's Starliner spacecraft is under heavy scrutiny from a National Aeronautics and Space Administration investigation.
Additionally, NASA confirmed on Friday that Boeing's Starliner suffered not one but two major software defects during that test flight. The latter software problem could have caused "catastrophic spacecraft failure," a panel of NASA safety experts said on Thursday, if Boeing had not caught the issue during the mission.
In all, NASA says its investigation of the mission has found "11 top-priority corrective actions" for Boeing. Additionally, the agency expects more will be identified when the investigation is complete. "What we wish we'd done better was software, so there's a lot of learning there," Chilton said on Friday.
"We found an issue and then we fixed it," Loverro said. "It would have been very difficult ... to go ahead and even have the discussion we're having today without having the independent review team go back and look at this."Bridenstine said "it is still too early to know" whether or not NASA will require Boeing to redo Starliner's uncrewed flight test.
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