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Boeing Starliner Crew to Return to Earth From ISS in February 2025 - NASA

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The crew of Boeing's troubled Starliner will return from the International Space Station (ISS) only in February 2025, while the ship itself will be returned without a crew, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said on Saturday.

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"NASA has decided that [astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams] will return with Crew-9 next February, and that Starliner will return uncrewed," Nelson told a briefing. The exact time for the spacecraft's return to Earth remains unknown. Starliner was launched with its two-astronaut crew on June 5 but five of its 28 thrusters failed at different times during its flight to the ISS and five helium leaks were also recorded. The spacecraft's return flight was originally scheduled for June 14 but has been repeatedly delayed since then while engineers back on Earth tried to solve the problems, NASA officials have acknowledged.

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Boeing Starliner Crew to Return to Earth From ISS in February 2025 - NASA

17:51 GMT 24.08.2024 (Updated: 17:53 GMT 24.08.2024)

© AP Photo / Joel KowskyBoeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft mounted on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is rolled out of the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 ahead of the Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission, Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida

Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft mounted on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is rolled out of the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 ahead of the Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission, Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida - Sputnik International, 1920, 24.08.2024

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The crew of Boeing's troubled Starliner will return from the International Space Station (ISS) only in February 2025, while the ship itself will be returned without a crew, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said on Saturday.

"NASA has decided that [astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams] will return with Crew-9 next February, and that Starliner will return uncrewed," Nelson told a briefing.

The exact time for the spacecraft's return to Earth remains unknown.

Starliner was launched with its two-astronaut crew on June 5 but five of its 28 thrusters failed at different times during its flight to the ISS and five helium leaks were also recorded.

The spacecraft's return flight was originally scheduled for June 14 but has been repeatedly delayed since then while engineers back on Earth tried to solve the problems, NASA officials have acknowledged.