NASA astronauts' return on Boeing's spaceship faces repeated delays

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initially floated June 18 as the earliest date the astronauts could return, after which the agency said the flight back would happen on June 22. Then that was changed to June 26, and the latest delay, announced Friday, pushed the planned landing back to an as yet undetermined new date. The reason for the adjustments,

’s Commercial Crew Program, said in a statement. “We are letting the data drive our decision making relative to managing the small helium system leaks and thruster performance we observed during rendezvous and docking.” The Starliner’s test flight to the International Space Station is meant to demonstrate that the vehicle can safely ferry astronauts to and from low-Earth orbit and to assess its various systems in space.

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