By Joey Roulette

ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) -The vice president leading Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft unit, Mark Nappi, has left the troubled program and was replaced by the company’s International Space Station program manager, John Mulholland, a Boeing spokesperson told Reuters on Thursday.

Nappi, who led Boeing’s Starliner program through major engineering issues since 2022, is in a new role “focused on identifying opportunities for streamlining improvement across the division’s space programs until he retires next month,” Boeing said.

Mulholland previously led Boeing’s Starliner program before switching in 2020 to the company’s International Space Station program, which works closely with NASA under a multi-billion-dollar station operations contract.

(Reporting by Joey Roulette; Editing by Leslie Adler and Matthew Lewis)