separation confirmed Starliner is now backing away from station and starting its return to Earth NASA and Boeing successfully returned the uncrewed Starliner spacecraft after it landed at 10:01 p.m. MDT on September 6th at Whit sand space Harbor in New Mexico this marked the conclusion of a three-month flight test to the International Space Station Ken Bowersox associate administrator of the space operations Mission directorate at NASA headquarters expressed I am extremely proud of the work our Collective team put into this entire flight test and we are pleased to see starliners safe return NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunni Williams launched on June 5th aboard Starliner for the Boeing crude flight test from Cape Canaveral space force station in Florida NASA and Boeing detected helium leaks and encountered issues with the spacecraft's reaction control thrusters