separation confirmed Starliner is now backing away from station and starting its return to Earth [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] um as was said NASA bowling safely returned the staring spacecraft just after 11:00 p.m. central Time to the white sand space Harbor in New Mexico after spending approximately three months attached to the International Space Station it's great to have the Starliner home um a safe and successful Landing was exactly what we wanted [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] do you have any second thoughts about the decision not to bring him back if you had it to do over again and knowing what you know know about the landing yeah I think it's always hard to have that retrospective look you know we made the decision to have an uncrewed flight based on what we knew at the time and based on our knowledge of the thrusters and based on the modeling that we had and we you know if we' have had a model that would have predicted what we saw tonight perfectly yeah it looks like an easy decision to go say we could have had a crude flight but we didn't have that we didn't have a way to take that White Sands uh testing and anchored in a model and uh so I think we made the right decision to not have Butch and sunny on board [Music]