The two astronauts, Butch and Sunny, who launched on Boeing Starliner will now return on SpaceX Crew 9 in February 2025. The Boeing Starliner will leave uncrewed in early September.
It will have a modified departure that will get away from the ISS faster than previous mission profiles.
Boeing will try to figure out how to fix Starliner.
This is good news that NASA is taking the safer choice.
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Do Butch and Sunny get overtime pay for all the time Boing left them stranded?
Time to reconsider the funding of Boeing’s space efforts.
I guess the first task is updating the software onboard for an unmanned departure, since they stripped the software of all features not needed for the intended mission, in order to simplify the development process enough that they were actually capable of getting it written. Boeing’s software design process is apparently also broken…
It sure took them long enough to admit the obvious…
Boeing engineers could screw up a bowl of soup.