The report, by NASA's Office of the Inspector General, has even called for 'financial penalties' for the aerospace giant's 'noncompliance with quality control standards.' 

All summer, debate has raged within the space agency over how best to rescue the first two humans to ever pilot Boeing's long-awaited Starliner spacecraft which had been scheduled to ferry the duo to and from orbit for a nine-day mission this June.

But as that expedition stretched on into August — with a high probability that both astronauts will likely now be stuck in space into well 2025 — NASA OIG partnered with Pentagon investigators to review Boeing's 'numerous administrative errors.'