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NASA Decides to Bring Starliner Spacecraft Back to Earth Without Crew (blogs.nasa.gov)

submitted 3 weeks ago by llamacoffee@lemmy.world to c/spaceflight@sh.itjust.works

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[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

wondering why there's such a big gap between Starliner's expected departure ("early September") and the launch of Crew-9 (no earlier than 2024-09-24)

Yeah, that struck me as a bit odd as well.

the Crew-9 crew strapped into their Dragon, on the launchpad, and hearing on their comms system something like "Starliner has successfully exited the ISS's Keep Out Sphere, so NASA is 'go' for propellant load on Falcon 9"

LOL, this scenario sounds super cool!