Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore launched aboard Boeing’s Starliner in June 2024 for an eight-day test flight and came home on a SpaceX capsule 286 days later—not because they were chasing a record, but because NASA judged the propulsion problems on the spacecraft that carried them there too uncertain to risk bringing them back.

NASA did not conclude that Starliner was certain to fail. It concluded that unresolved thruster behaviour made a crewed return harder to justify than waiting for Crew-9. The post Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore launched aboard Boeing’s Star…

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1. SpaceDaily 5 Sep
   Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore launched aboard Boeing’s Starliner in June 2024 for an eight-day test flight and came home on a SpaceX capsule 286 days later—not because they were chasing a record, but because NASA judged the propulsion problems on the spacecraft that carried them there too uncertain to risk bringing them back. ↗