I am guessing that they will bring the 2 astronauts back on the Crew 9 and try to bring Starliner back in an autonomous reentry. It will be interesting to see if Starliner makes it back in one piece.
They may just crash into the sea what’s left of it after it burns up.............
#3 NASA cannot bring back Starliner on auto pilot as they removed the software that had been used a few years ago on a unpiloted test mission.
There were at least two You tube articles yesterday on the subject....... bad news.
The star liner capsule can’t retrun unmanned. The soft ware requires human input from inside the capsule for operation. The worst aspect of this fact is that the capsuloe can’t even be detached, released from the space station without someone inside the capsule operating the release controls.
At present or at least yesterday NASA/Boeing have a very big and unsolvable problem. i