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NASA will bring the Starliner astronauts home next year on SpaceX’s Crew-9 mission


Starliner will return to Earth without its crew.

By Andrew Liszewski, a senior reporter who's been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2011, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. NASA administrator Bill Nelson announced today that US astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore will return next February with the SpaceX Crew-9 mission after spending more than 80 days aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Those plans changed after thruster failures, helium leaks, and valve issues plagued the alreadylong-delayed Starliner while it was docking with the ISS.

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