Boeing’s Starliner space capsule has already been docked at the International Space Station for three weeks while engineers have worked to analyze its ongoing helium leaks and malfunctioning thrusters.
Now the commercial crew vehicle’s return date — and that of the two veteran astronauts slated to come back with it for its first crewed test flight — has been put on “indefinite hold” while the federal space agency runs more tests on Starliner’s malfunctioning thrusters and helium leaks.
However, NASA officials insist that Butch Wilmore, the mission commander, and Suni Williams, the mission pilot, are absolutely able to clamber aboard “Calypso” (as they’ve dubbed this Boeing Starliner) and head back to Earth at any…
