"NASA will return Boeing's Starliner to Earth without NASA Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aboard the spacecraft.

The uncrewed return allows NASA and Boeing to continue gathering testing data on Starliner during its upcoming flight home, while also not accepting more risk than necessary for its crew.

Wilmore and Williams will continue their work formally as part of the Expedition 71/72 crew through February 2025. They will fly home aboard a Dragon spacecraft with two other crew members assigned to the agency's SpaceX Crew9 mission.

Starliner is expected to depart from the International Space Station and make a safe, controlled autonomous re-entry and landing in early September.

More: https://go.nasa.gov/3yUIXKİ"

At this point, might as well.

(in all seriousness, I wish Boeing would get their shit together.)

"A new era of space exploration begins!

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams lifted off at 10:52 a.m. EDT June 5 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket to begin NASA Commercial Crew Program's Crew Flight Test, the first crewed Boeing #Starliner mission!"

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Date: June 5, 2024

The Starliner Calypso spacecraft on NASA's Boeing Crew Flight Test (Boe-CFT) docked to the Harmony module's forward port as the International Space Station orbited 263 miles above the Mediterranean Sea.

Date: June 13, 2024

"This view from a window on the cupola overlooks the Kibo laboratory module as Boeing's Starliner Calypso spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni WIlliams approaches the International Space Station."

Date: June 6, 2024

"The Starliner Calypso spacecraft on NASA's Boeing Crew Flight Test approaches the International Space Station while orbiting 263 miles above Quebec, Canada. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aboard Starliner would dock to the orbital outpost's forward port on the Harmony module at 1:34 p.m. EDT on Thursday, June 6."

Date: June 6, 2024