Spacecraft that left astronauts stranded in space was one of Nasa’s worst ever failures, space agency says

The Nasa mission that left astronauts stuck in space was one of the agency’s worst ever failures, it has said.

In 2024, Nasa astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunny Williams conducted the first crewed test flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, which was intended as a new way to take people to the International Space Station and other destinations. But the mission went wrong almost as soon as it took off, leaving the two astronauts stuck in space for nine months.