{"id":788122,"date":"2024-08-30T10:38:50","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T15:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=788122"},"modified":"2024-08-30T10:38:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T15:38:50","slug":"nasa-sets-return-date-for-boeing-starliner-while-astronauts-stay-in-space-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=788122","title":{"rendered":"NASA sets return date for Boeing Starliner, while astronauts stay in space : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n In this long-exposure photo provided by NASA, Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is docked to the Harmony module of the International Space Station on July 3.
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Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is scheduled to fly home on Sept. 6 \u2014 more than 12 weeks from the initial return date and without the crew that originally accompanied it.<\/p>\n

In a statement, NASA said Starliner will undock from the International Space Station around 6 p.m. ET “pending weather and operational readiness.” The troubled spacecraft is expected to touch down shortly after midnight on a landing zone in New Mexico before it returns to Boeing\u2019s Starliner factory at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.<\/p>\n

The Starliner will leave behind astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams, who flew abroad Starliner back in June. The pair is slated to return in a capsule built by a competing company, Space X, in February.<\/p>\n