One of them is to pare the next ISS launch — SpaceX's Crew-9 — to two astronauts instead of four, to make room for Starliner's astronauts on that mission's Crew Dragon when it comes home next ...

Apparently, NASA has delayed the Dragon Crew 9 to September specifically to provide time for Boeing to program the StarLiner for robotic reentry. So, that is not off the table - at least not yet.

The Boeing Starliner capsule has a 15-foot diameter, which makes it slightly wider than SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft, but in terms of height, Starliner is the runt of the two, coming in at 16.5 ...

SpaceX certifies the Crew Dragon to sustain its crew in space for seven days when undocked and 210 days when docked. Once the spacecraft is back on the ground, SpaceX can refurbish it for 10 ...

Boeing struggled for years to develop Starliner, a gumdrop-shaped capsule designed to compete with Crew Dragon as a second U.S. option for sending astronaut crews to and from Earth’s orbit.

Starliner has been docked to the ISS for 63 of the maximum 90 days it can stay, and it is parked at the same port that Crew Dragon will have to use to deliver the upcoming astronaut crew.

Starliner astronauts Wilmore and Williams are due to board the SpaceX Dragon that the Crew-9 team flew to the space station in late September to undock around 1:05 a.m. EDT Tuesday. Advertisement ...

NASA officials said on Wednesday that the two astronauts delivered to the International Space Station by Boeing’s BA-N Starliner could return on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon in February 2025 instead ...

An upcoming routine SpaceX mission to send a crew of astronauts to the International Space Station bears a little more significance this time around. When a mission known as Crew-10 launches as early ...

Starliner would compete with the dominant Crew Dragon capsule from Elon Musk's SpaceX and provide NASA a second U.S. ride to low-Earth orbit for its astronauts.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -NASA officials said on Wednesday the two astronauts delivered to the International Space Station in June by Boeing's Starliner could return on SpaceX's Crew Dragon in February ...