Get the latest tech news

Boeing Starliner returns to earth successfully unscrewed

Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft successfully landed in New Mexico early Sept. 7, completing the Crew Flight Test mission but without any crew on board.

“A safe and successful landing is exactly what we wanted,” said Joel Montalbano, deputy associate administrator for NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate, at a post-landing briefing. Steve Stich, NASA commercial crew program manager, said at the post-landing briefing that during the 58-second deorbit burn, two RCS thrusters got hotter than expected but did not fail. With Starliner back on the ground, NASA and Boeing will turn their full attention to fixing the helium leaks and thruster problems that marred the mission.

Get the Android app