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NASA Decides to Bring Starliner Spacecraft Back to Earth Without Crew (blogs.nasa.gov)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Space missions are heavily constrained by weather and the timing of orbits. It’s probably risky to assume there will be a good window particularly close to the Crew-9 launch date.