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As such, Starliner’s homecoming that September was in autonomous mode and the astronauts remained on the ISS. It wasn’t until March 2025 that the astronauts came back via SpaceX’s Crew-9 mission. Williams retired at the end of 2025.
An independent report conducted by NASA has dubbed Boeing Starliner’s crewed 2024 test flight one of the federal space agency’s biggest failures.
Ken Bowersox, NASA’s associate administrator for space operations, is retiring from the agency less than a week after the release of the Starliner report.
Four astronauts successfully blasted off to the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday.Footage shows a SpaceX rocket taking off from Cape Canaveral in Florida.NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12
The ISS has “come into its own as a very sophisticated scientific laboratory,” says retired NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who famously spent a year in space aboard the station in 2015 and 2016.