Stranded or not? What's the status of astronauts on Boeing's Starliner?

Thanks Ellie, this is the top-notch, factual and even-handed journalism that we've all come to expect of you.

What's really scandalous is that Starliner was allowed to fly at all, with two astronauts on board. It's not ready.

nowadays Boeing is SO LUCKY to be a government supported/subsidized company, as a private one would be bankrupted by now.

Windows and or doors exploding off the ship while being towed before launch, is not a major concern at this time.

I would NOT want to come home in that thing, it has way too many issues, and they never should have gone up in it.

At least the door didn't fall off.

I reckon the space station will be retired before star liner demonstrates a clean round trip which i think is needed before certification

Better 'Stuckliner' than 'Flatliner'!

First bring back the two astronauts by using another rescue vehicle. Let the starliner return to earth unmanned.

Remember that time a Dragon capsule was stuck and couldn't safely leave and a second capsule had to be sent? Me neither.

They have been up there so long that NASA are considering charging them rent.

0:30 Boeing also is known for having problems keeping their doors closed.

I know a little more than the public about Boeing. I was job hunting and found programing positions in their business software division on their site back before they killed 2 planefuls of people on the Max 8s. This led me to employee blogs where I found multiple complaints from programmers and project leaders about managements policy of only caring about deadlines not quality. They said that many had left in disgust. I am thinking NASA is finally deciding they cannot trust this deceitful company. Maybe, you could search for those blogs and find someone to interview.

Might be wise to return the people with SpaceX and have the Starliner return autonomously.

I think Starliner will bring them home. I certainly hope they are safe. If anything happens on the way back, Boeing is done.

I think Boeing's best days are over, you can see it in aviation too. Thank God for SpaceX.

Excellent report as always. What really chaps me about this whole situation is that Boeing lobbied HARD to exclude SpaceX from commercial crew. Had they been successful, we would still be buying rides from Russia. Given the world situation, how much do you think those rides would have cost? No doubt that building spacecraft is hard work but Boeing needs to get out of its own way and stop letting the accountants run the show.

+ about 6 hrs since Ellie's post: I hope you are following the NASA JSC ISS presser - reporters are pressing hard about the lack of daily info as well as the vague testing. And NASA is clearly annoyed about words like "stranded." Yet they will NOT commit to an end of testing and a return to earth for Suni and Butch.

Oh and BTW, great reporting Ellie.

I do believe nasa is trying to save face with starliner. In my opinion, they should give SS dream chaser the money to develop the crew version and drop boing. It may take a little longer to develop crew dream chaser but it will be better in the long run