During Starliner's return, the performance of the craft's systems will be under scrutiny. Of particular concern are four of the service module's aft-facing attitude-control thrusters that ...

Boeing's Starliner capsule "Calypso" has been in space for 71 days and counting as the company and NASA try to identify why multiple thrusters failed during docking. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore ...

The Boeing Starliner spacecraft, with astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams, is stuck in space due technical issues since its June 5 launch. The spacecraft has experienced five helium leaks ...

About 31 minutes after lift-off, Starliner - having now separated from the upper stage of its rocket - fires four thrusters to put itself in the right orbit. Getty Images Starliner sits atop an ...

Shortly after docking with the ISS, however, mission engineers detected multiple issues with Starliner’s thrusters, putting the astronauts’ return timeline into question. The team ultimately ...

Astronauts Suni Williams (left) and Butch Wilmore were supposed to have stayed on the space station for eight days The two astronauts testing out Boeing’s new Starliner spacecraft were supposed ...

I'm not complaining that we're here for a couple extra weeks." Wilmore said despite the thruster issues, the Starliner has been "truly impressive." Boeing and NASA said the astronauts could fly ...

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft has undocked from the ... But due to problems with the spacecraft’s thrusters during its rendezvous with the space station, the return date was pushed back first ...

During the current mission, which was the first to see Starliner carrying humans, issues emerged with the vehicle thrusters and a helium leak. Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were meant ...

The issue - a fuel leak - appeared on June 2, as Ars Technica first reported, when Boeing test-fired four thrusters designed to propel the Starliner away from a potential launchpad emergency.

Because of concerns with Starliner’s thrusters and helium leaks on its propulsion module, NASA elected to play it safe and keep Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams on board the ISS while sending Starliner ...