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2024

Is there a future for Starliner after the failed mission?

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Boeing and NASA teams work around NASA's Boeing Crew Flight Test Starliner spacecraft after it landed unmanned at White Sands Space Harbor. Credit - Aubrey Gemignani/NASA via Getty

Boeing made little mention of the two empty spacesuits that returned with the Starliner spacecraft when it landed uncrewed in New Mexico at 10:01 p.m. MDT on Friday, Sept. 6, after a three-month berth at the International Space Station (ISS). U.S. astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams wore the blue suits when they boarded the ship on June 5 for what was supposed to be an eight-day stay at the station. But ...