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Boeing will try to fly its troubled Starliner capsule back to Earth next week
The two astronauts who launched on Starliner will stay behind on the International Space Station.
Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who were supposed to return to Earth inside Starliner, will remain behind on the space station after NASA decided last week to conclude the Boeing test flight without its crew on board. Over the last few days, flight controllers updated parameters in Starliner's software to handle a fully autonomous return to Earth without inputs from astronauts flying in the cockpit, NASA said. NASA is clearly more comfortable with returning Wilmore and Williams to Earth inside SpaceX's Dragon capsule, but the change disrupts crew operations at the space station.
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