It’s official: NASA calls on Crew Dragon to rescue the Starliner astronauts
It’s official: NASA calls on Crew Dragon to rescue the Starliner astronauts
"I would say the White Sands testing did give us a surprise."
Therefore, Boeing's Starliner spacecraft will undock from the station early next month—the tentative date, according to a source, is September 6—and attempt to make an autonomous return to Earth and land in a desert in the southwestern United States.
Then, no earlier than September 24, a Crew Dragon spacecraft will launch with two astronauts (NASA has not named the two crew members yet) to the space station with two empty seats. Wilmore and Williams will join these two Crew-9 astronauts for their previously scheduled six-month increment on the space station. All four will then return to Earth on the Crew Dragon vehicle.
Hopefully the thrusters will work long enough to get that piece of junk a safe distance away from the ISS.
The lies trying to save face when problems were first disclosed shows a massive difference in culture. SpaceX livestreams blowing up rockets. Boeing dismisses and delays when there is a problem with their ship.