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NASA official acknowledges internal “disagreement” on safety of Starliner return

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NASA officials for the first time publicly discussed divisions within the agency about whether the Starliner spacecraft is reliable enough to return two veteran astronauts back to Earth from the International Space Station .

The space agency also confirmed that NASA has quietly been working for weeks with SpaceX on a potential recuse mission for Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams .

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