Boeing Appoints John Mulholland as Head of Starliner Spacecraft Program
He replaces Mark Nappi, who has left the program.
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Boeing has replaced Mark Nappi as director of its Starliner spacecraft program, appointing John Mulholland, the company’s International Space Station (ISS) program manager, a Boeing spokesperson told Reuters on Thursday.
Nappi, who had led Boeing’s Starliner program since 2022 through major engineering issues and test setbacks, has taken on a new role focused on identifying opportunities to optimize improvements in the company’s space programs until his retirement next month, Boeing said.
Mulholland previously led Boeing’s Starliner program from 2011 before transitioning in 2020 to oversee the company’s ISS operations, which work closely with NASA under a multibillion-dollar station operations contract.
Boeing's Starliner spacecraft is being developed under a $4.5 billion NASA contract to transport astronauts to the ISS. However, the program has faced a series of engineering challenges since 2019.
During its first crewed test mission last summer, Starliner was forced by NASA to leave its crew aboard the ISS and return empty in September due to critical propulsion system issues.
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