NASA faces a decision by late August on whether to use Boeing’s Starliner or SpaceX’s Crew Dragon to return astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams from the ISS.
needs to decide by the end of August whether to return two astronauts to Earth aboard Boeing's Starliner, which flew them to the International Space Station , or bring them home on a rival SpaceX craft.
officials, at a press conference on Wednesday, said they were still analysing thruster data, but a decision on whether to use Starliner or SpaceX was looming. "We don't have a sharp cutoff, right?" said Ken Bowersox, associate administrator of
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