Boeing’s Starliner leaves space station for Earth – without its astronauts

Nasa’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who flew Starliner amid technical failures, will remain at ISS until February

Boeing’s Starliner space capsule undocked to leave the International Space Station on Friday – months after its original departure date and without the two astronauts it carried when it launched in early June.

According to Nasa, the Starliner autonomously left its docking port at the ISS at just after 6pm ET to make the approximately six-hour journey home to a landing zone at White Sands Space Harbor in the New Mexico desert. Coverage of the departure is being livestreamed.

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