Boeing's troubled capsule won't carry astronauts on next space station flight

Boeing and NASA have agreed to keep astronauts off the company's next Starliner flight. Instead, Boeing will perform a trial run with cargo to the International Space Station to prove the capsule's safety. Monday's announcement comes eight months after the first and only Starliner crew returned to Earth aboard SpaceX after a prolonged mission. Although the two NASA test pilots managed to dock Starliner to the space station last year, the capsule had so many problems that NASA ordered it to come back empty. Engineers have since been poring over Starliner's thruster and other issues. The cargo run will occur no earlier than April.