It's all over...

But the crying at Boeing...

NASA kicked the Starliner to the curb yesterday.

Boeing will return its Starliner capsule from the International Space Station without the NASA astronauts that it delivered to orbit in early June, the agency announced on Saturday.

With Starliner coming back to Earth empty, NASA will now have astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams return via SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, which is expected to launch its ninth regular mission to the ISS for the agency on Sept. 24.

Ultimately, Wilmore and Williams will stay at the ISS for about six more months before flying home in February on SpaceX’s Crew-9 vehicle. The test flight was originally intended to last about nine days.

Full article, HERE from CNBC, h/t Stretch

Well, NASA finally got off the dime and made a decision. Now SpaceX gets to do a rescue, in addition to 'building' new suits for Wilmore and Willams since the Starliner suits won't connect to the Dragon capsule.

One thing that was pointed out yesterday evening is that 'supposedly' there is an international agreement on 'standardized' fittings that will work with ANY capsule. Obviously, Boeing/Starliner didn't do that. So until Dragon (now down two astronauts goes up in September, Wilmore and Williams are drifting in the wind if there is an emergency evac of the ISS. 

I also wonder 'when' they will kick the Starliner off the ISS???

And how many heads will roll at NASA and Boeing over this mess? Apparently the losses (so far) are over $1B to Boeing's bottom line.