Boeing Starliner’s Future Is Unclear After Returning Without Astronauts Written 9 September 2024
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Boeing CST-100 Starliner crew ship approaches the International Space Station. | Credit: Bob Hines/NASA; Wikipedia; Public Domain
The New York Times reports that Boeing’s Starliner “has finally come home, but the two NASA astronauts who traveled in it to the International Space Station in June remain in orbit. Because of problems with Starliner’s propulsion system during its approach to the space station in June, NASA officials decided not to put the astronauts, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, on Starliner for the return trip. They will spend an additional five months on the space station as part of the crew before coming back to Earth around February in a spacecraft built and managed by SpaceX.”
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