NASA decided the Boeing Starliner astronauts will come home next year on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon vehicle, and that Starliner will come back to Earth uncrewed.
NASA administrator Bill Nelson announced today that US astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore will return next February with the SpaceX Crew-9 mission after spending more than 80 days aboard the International Space Station . According to NASA Commercial Crew Program manager Steve Stich, “As we got more and more data over the summer and understood the uncertainty of that data, it became very clear to us that the best course of action was to return Starliner uncrewed.
But after that, you have to do some work to keep your team together, right?” “And I’ll acknowledge that we have some work to do there. It’s pretty natural when you’ve had a difficult decision to make.” Bowersox said that NASA remains “committed to working with Boeing.” Stich weighed in, saying, “Boeing did a great job building a model.
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