ORLANDO, Fla. — NASA’s astronauts could soon officially have a new ride to the International Space Station as the Boeing CST-100 Starliner finally completed its long-delayed reflight of its uncrewed test mission arriving back on Earth on Wednesday.
The capsule that launched last week from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station spent more than four days docked to the ISS as part of the Orbital Flight Test-2, a redo of the first uncrewed test flight from 2019 that failed to meet objectives.
It undocked at 2:36 p.m. EDT as the station was orbiting 257 miles above the Earth, and touched down in the New Mexico desert just over four hours later, landing at 6:49 p.m. less than a half mile from the planned target near the U.S. Army’s White Sands Missile Range.
