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Boeing’s Starliner lifted off with Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams on June 5 The decision to transfer the crew of Boeing’s Starliner to a SpaceX mission after the spacecraft malfunctioned is just the latest twist in a long saga that has undermined the credibility of the US aerospace giant. Here is a recap…
Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams’s job was simple when they took off to the International Space Station (ISS) on June 5. They were to test-fly the Boeing Starliner crew capsule for the first time with a human crew, assess its performance (including its manual controls), dock with the ISS, and return to the earth in…
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