Launch from Cape Canaveral (
KSC)
SLC-41.
Following a one day soloflight
Starliner
docked in the second attempt to the International Space Station.
Due to
technical problems
Starliner
had to stay more than two months docked to the International Space
Station. Planned was a week.
In the past two months connected to
multiple helium leaks detected
on the
Starliner's
service module as well as issues in five thrusters, which were detected
during rendezvous and docking with the International Space Station
following the mission launch on June 05, 2024.
NASA
will return
Boeing's
Starliner
to Earth without astronauts Barry
Wilmore
and Sunita Williams
aboard the spacecraft, the agency announced on August 24, 2024. The
uncrewed return allows
NASA
and
Boeing
to continue gathering testing data on
Starliner
during its upcoming flight home, while also not accepting more risk than
necessary for its crew.
Barry
Wilmore
and Sunita
Williams
will continue their work formally as part of the Expedition
71/
72
crew through February 2025.
They will fly home aboard a
Crew
Dragon spacecraft with two other crew members assigned to the
agency's
SpaceX Crew-9 mission.
Starliner
is expected to depart from the space station and make a safe, controlled
autonomous re-entry and landing in early September 2024.
NASA
and
Boeing
safely returned the uncrewed
Starliner
spacecraft following its landing on September 07, 2024 at White Sands
Space Harbor in New Mexico, concluding a three-month flight test to the
International Space Station.