NASA makes startling decision on stranded Boeing astronauts

NASA has decided that Butch and sunny will return with crew nine next February uh and that Starliner uh will return uncrewed and the specifics in the schedule will be discussed momentarily space flight is risky even at its saf safest and even at its most routine and a test flight by nature is neither safe nor routine and so the decision to keep Butch and sunny aboard the International Space Station and bring the Boeing Starliner home uncrewed is a result of a commitment to safety our core value is safety and it is our North Star I talked with poin Sunny uh both yesterday and today they support the agency's decision fully and they're ready to continue this mission on board ISS as members of the Expedition 71 crew so how now do you begin to rebuild that relationship of trust with boing I wouldn't necessarily call it trust I would call it a technical disagreement where we get uh a group of Engineers together and they disagree on the risk level of what could potentially happen to the thrusters um Boeing did a great job building a model now the question is is that model good enough to predict performance for a crew

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