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The Boeing Starliner Astronauts Will Come Home on SpaceX’s Dragon Next Year


The decision will leave the crew on the ISS until February. The mission was initially supposed to last about a week.

NASA has announced that astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams will return to Earth next February aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft. The announcement at a press conference today caps off monthsofspeculation about the best plan to safely bring the astronauts home after malfunctions with their ride, Boeing ’s Starliner capsule, postponed their departure from the International Space Station in June. But their return has been delayed for more than two months as mission planners struggled to isolate the cause of the thruster problems and assess the risks of using Starliner for the flight home.

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