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  • Starliner Suffers New Problems While Coming Back to Earth..."We would not be surprised if Boeing were to divest the manned spaceflight business."

    09/17/2024 9:01:03 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 16 replies
    The Byte ^ | September 09, 2024 | Victor Tangermann
    Homeward Bound On Saturday morning, NASA's plagued Starliner spacecraft finally made it back to the ground. The capsule landed in the New Mexico desert after spending just over three months in space. But thanks to technical issues worrying NASA officials, it left behind the agency's two stranded astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, bookending a disastrous first crewed flight attempt. The pair will have to wait for their ride back, on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, until February. Signals on the capsule's return were mixed. On the one hand, according to NASA’s commercial crew program manager Steve Stich, it pulled...