Watch the Boeing Starliner astronauts return to Earth

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission lifted off successfully Friday night, taking its crew of four on their way to the International Space Station. Now that it’s there, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have started the ride back home to Earth after being stranded aboard the ISS for nine months. Their Boeing Starliner mission that launched to the ISS on June 5th, 2024, was only supposed to last eight days, but issues like thruster failures and helium leaks made it unsafe to return to Earth using Starliner. The astronauts are returning on the Crew-9 capsule, along with two astronauts from that mission. NASA’s livestream of their landing is scheduled to begin at 4:45PM ET, and they are expected to splash down off the coast of Florida at around 5:57PM ET. ... Read full article.