WATCH: Boeing’s Starliner To Return to Earth Without Crew After Series of Technical Issues Plagued Its Maiden Voyage
NASA and Boeing are attempting to bring an empty Starliner spacecraft back to Earth tonight, weeks after the spacecraft was deemed too risky for astronauts to ride home.
The empty Starliner has detached from the International Space Station for the six-hour journey that is to conclude at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico just after midnight ET.
NASA is live streaming the undocking phase beginning and also the Starliner’s landing starting at 10:50 p.m. ET.
Live Science reported:
“The landing will conclude NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test — the first attempt to carry astronauts into space on the Starliner capsule. However, the test flight will end without the crew that initially rode the vehicle into orbit.”
Starliner was launched from Florida’s Cape Canaveral on June 5,
