Vast, an aerospace company based in Long Beach, California, partnered with NASA to send four of its own private astronauts to the ISS in 2027.

NASA has formally classified the June 2024 Boeing Starliner Crewed Flight Test as a “Type A mishap,” the agency’s most serious incident category, after thruster failures and helium leaks during approach to the International Space Station left astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams stranded in orbit for nine months.

NASA and partners receive research samples when a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft departs the ISS on Thursday, February 26, and returns to Earth.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman is taking aim at former leadership of the space agency he now heads for the botched Boeing Starliner mission.