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The Boeing Starliner’s strange test flight finally returned to Earth, but it’s empty

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Boeing Starliner is finally on its way back.

The troubled spacecraft successfully undocked from the ISS without issue just after 6PM ET, and now it is scheduled to land at 12:01AM ET on Saturday at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico.

Still image from the live stream of Starliner’s autonomous undocking showing the spacecraft as it slowly separated from the ISS.
Image: NASA (YouTube)
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