NASA Delays Starliner Crew Return Decision

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams

NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts (from top) Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams pictured onboard the ISS.

Credit: NASA
NASA has delayed a decision on how best to return the Boeing CST-100 Starliner crew to Earth. The Aug. 12 update underlines the challenge the agency is having to determine the safest course of action due to uncertainty over the capsule’s propulsion system that has already caused a days-long mission...
Robert Wall

Robert Wall is Executive Editor for Defense and Space. Based in London, he directs a team of military and space journalists across the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific.

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