Boeing Starliner Makes A Safe Landing On Earth Without Astronauts Sunita Williams, Butch Wilmor
Starliner Return: Boeing's Starliner spacecraft finally returned to Earth, making a safe landing at the White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico on Saturday morning. As decided by NASA and Boeing, which kept the safety of astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore in mind, the spacecraft was brought back uncrewed. The first crew test flight of the Boeing Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) was originally intended to be a 10-day mission, but it got extended after engineers detected helium leaks and other issues in it.
Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore will now return aboard a SpaceX capsule in February 2025.
Earlier, the undocking of the spacecraft from the space station began on Friday at 6.04 pm EDT (3:34 am IST, Saturday, September 7), as scheduled, after miss...