The stranded Boeing Starliner spacecraft is now delaying SpaceX's planned Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) — and NASA is considering scrapping the spacecraft's crewed return flight to Earth as more details about Starliner's malfunctions come to light.
The delay, which moves the launch of the Crew-9 mission from Aug. 18 to no earlier than Sept. 24, "allows more time for mission managers to finalize return planning for the agency's Boeing Crew Flight Test," NASA wrote in a blog update on Tuesday (Aug. 6).
