WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Boeing's Starliner spacecraft lifted off from the International Space Station on Friday, leaving behind its first crew of U.S. astronauts to return to Earth empty and end a test mission riddled with technical problems.
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, the first two astronauts to fly Starliner in June, remained aboard the ISS with seven other astronauts 400 km into orbit as Starliner autonomously departed the laboratory at 6:04 p.m. for a six-hour journey. .