Seventy-one days after launch, NASA finally nears a decision on whether Boeing's Starliner will return to Earth with, or without, a crew.
NASA plans to hold an unprecedented agency-level readiness review as early as the end of next week to decide if Boeing 's Starliner capsule can safely bring its two crew members back to Earth, a senior manager said Wednesday.
Ever since, engineers have been reviewing telemetry, carrying out thruster tests in orbit and on the ground to pin down the cause of the degraded performance. Both systems are critical to enabling the ship to safely depart the station, re-enter the atmosphere and land in the western United States.'They have been at this very hard for a very long time, very dedicated to get to the right answer, whatever that might be,' said Russ DeLoach, chief of NASA Safety and Mission Assurance.
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