space agency officials gave the public assurances that the ..., the spacecraft is perfectly fine
I really hate when people lie so blatantly. A perfectly fine craft would be back here by now, instead of being a month overdue.
So when they get a Dragon ready, they can retrieve an unmanned Starliner remotely?
Now where have we heard that one before, eh?
Given what happened with a couple of space shuttles and the astronauts who crewed them, how do we know that this crew is refusing to return unless Musk does it...?