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.
Landing 80
km south of Tallahassee, Gulf of Mexico.