Boeing's troubled Starliner returning to Earth, but without crew

The Boeing Starliner departed the International Space Station Friday evening for its return journey to Earth, but without its crew of two. Concerns over the Starliner's helium leaks and engine issues will keep the two astronauts at the space station until February 2025, when they will get a ride home aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon. Mark Strassmann reports.

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[matthewcaughey]

Boeing needs to be forced to buy this lemon back from nasa for 4.2 billion dollars

[yannisgouras]

Better make sure all the doors are secure

[donnashowman]

In todays day and age i find it hard to belive we spend all that money and time on a space craft and still cant get it right... Somethings wrong 😢

[ScottRBrooks]

Yes let’s believe in Boeing, they never lie…….

[roberttuttle]

Another Boeing "BOING" failure

[cyclewisconsin]

Heads up in case a door falls off on reentry.

[TrievelleMystery]

Boeing taking all those short cuts finally caught up with ya!

[hvt]

It's a success if the door doesn't fall off.

[kennylo]

Damm, just imagine, possibly your only way home, departs from you, in space..

[gaius_enceladus]

The crew will be fine in the ISS. They have a good supply of food up there and they can get whatever they need via a Cargo Dragon flight (thank goodness for SpaceX!).

[DESIRD_]

Boeing ask our UFO Neighbors bring our Astronauts back on Tictak Flying Saucer👀🛸🛸😉

[williebulk]

Is it too late to get Katherine Goble Johnson to check the calculations for the return flight ?

[frostfox]

Union vrs non union is one different aspect.

[ComeonmenIDT]

let me guess SpaceX will come in and save the day

[TheMTAL]

Send the Hells angels to rescue them! fr

[timdunn]

Before they even launched it after numerous delays, they "hoped" it would all be okay. That is just stupid. All of that was taxpayer money, and now we will pay a private company to give them a lift home in the spring. Spacex could have sent and returned them for less than $150 million. It would have been part of a supply mission and include next-generation spacesuits.

[blond]

Very good choice on NASA's part! We should honor those who died in space flight by not repeating the same mistakes. If there's a suspected problem, they should not be on board.

[ashleymitts]

How long will it take to get back to earth?

[luanneevans]

Hopefully it doesn't just crash onto us

[sethirwin]

No Gene Kranz to say “failure is not an option!”