Boeing will try to fly its troubled Starliner capsule back to Earth next week - eviltoast
The two astronauts who launched on Starliner will stay behind on the International Space Station.

Flying on autopilot, the Starliner spacecraft is scheduled to depart the station at approximately 6:04 pm EDT (22:04 UTC) on September 6. The capsule will fire its engines to drop out of orbit and target a parachute-assisted landing in New Mexico at 12:03 am EDT (04:03 UTC) on September 7, NASA said in a statement Thursday.

  • InvertedParallax@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    They won’t, their options already vested a decade ago.

    It’s like seeing the light from a star thousands of years ago, they booked the earnings from slashing engineering and nailed their compensation package.

    All it taught them was to be careful to get out at the peak.