NASA shakes up leadership of human spaceflight program in wake of critical Starliner report

An image of the International Space Station, with its many solar panels and modules, floating above Earth in space.

NASA has replaced two bigwigs in its human spaceflight program, just a week after releasing a report that found serious fault with how the first crewed flight of Boeing's Starliner astronaut taxi was handled.

The agency announced today (Feb. 26) that Joel Montalbano and Dana Hutcherson will serve as acting associate administrator for the Space Operations Mission Directorate (SOMD) and acting program manager of the Commercial Crew Program (CCP), respectively. They will both take charge immediately.