Mindful of the shuttle Challenger and Columbia accidents, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announces the decision to bring the Boeing Starliner spacecraft home without crew.
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HOUSTON and CAPE CANAVERAL—Two NASA astronauts conducting a flight test of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft will return to Earth in February aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon amid lingering questions about Starliner's propulsion system, the agency said Aug. 24. “We have had mistakes in the past,”...
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