Starliner is scheduled to touch down at White Sands Missile Range at 6:49 p.m. EDT (2249 GMT) on Wednesday (May 25).
Boeing's Starliner spacecraft will wrap up its landmark test flight to the International Space Station for NASA this week with a touchdown in New Mexico on Wednesday evening , if all goes according to plan.
on Friday , a day after launching on Orbital Flight Test 2 , an uncrewed shakeout mission designed to show that the capsule is ready to start carrying astronauts to and from the station for NASA. will stay docked with the orbiting lab for four to five days. This afternoon , we got some firm departure information: The capsule is scheduled to depart the ISS Wednesday at 2:36 p.m. EDT , with a landing occurring at the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico at 6:49 p.m.
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