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I had neglected to include the link that contained the mission length data:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Crew_Flight_Test

It turns out the “crew” info was changed since I posted , so now it says:

Mission duration Planned: 8 days
Capsule Final: 93 days, 13 hours, 9 minutes
Crew: 93 days, 20 hours, 46 minutes

I don’t know what that “crew” time even means (compared to the capsule’s) but it’s probably in the wall of text somewhere.

Kind of weird, though... I’d think the crew time would be the capsule’s total mission time less the journey home alone time, but it’s longer, and got longer from this morning after it returned,

Crew: 93 days, 17 hours, 28 minutes

??? One of those mysteries of life that has to be taken on faith.

Maybe if I check the page edits that occurred right after landing, the times are ~ the same; i.e. the crew time is a clock still running. A crew without its capsule.

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There are a few overlapping wiki pages for Starliner, including this other one:

Boeing Starliner Calypso (Spacecraft 3) is a space capsule manufactured by Boeing and used in NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. On 20 December 2019, Calypso launched on the Boeing Orbital Flight Test mission, an uncrewed test flight of Starliner to the International Space Station.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Starliner_Calypso

Aka “Spacecraft 3” (who can keep up anymore?), which pulled in Esther yet again because

ESTHER <-—> THREES

That being the case, with the letter “s” in “unscrewed” having inspired this whole mess...

I couldn’t help but notice:

SPACECRAFT 3 -—>

SPACECRAFT THREE —>

PACE-CRAFT THREES

Or PACE-CRAFT ESTHER, as it were.

“Starliner Calypso” as Esther makes plain sense already as previously posted.

She did have a way of plotting things out, all in the timing. Esther — concealed out in the open as queen, yet the Dark Side never saw ‘it’ coming.

Meanwhile, the expected sudden appearance of T Corona Borealis has people on edge this month. 🤔

“Any day now.”