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Boeing Starliner’s impact on Crew-8’s return
The Crew-8 astronauts launched into space on March 3 and remained in space longer than expected.

Among the roadblocks for their return to Earth were schedule changes related to issues with the Boeing Starliner spacecraft, which had carried NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and kra16.at Suni Williams to the space station on a test flight in early June but was deemed too risky to return its crew back to Earth.
NASA ultimately chose to send back the Boeing spacecraft empty and moved Starliner’s astronauts onto the SpaceX Crew-9 mission, delaying the launch of that mission. That schedule adjustment in turn delayed Crew-8’s return because Crew-9 had to arrive at the orbiting laboratory for a handoff of duties before Crew-8 could disembark.

Weather delays also pushed Crew-8’s return into late October. Leer más