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Challenger, Columbia shuttle disasters informed decision to send Starliner home uncrewed, NASA says

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Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore will now return to Earth no earlier than February 2025 aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule.

The decision was informed by lessons from the agency's two space shuttle disasters.

The first crewed Starliner flight was initially billed as an eight-day mission to the ISS .

The Columbia disaster occurred on Feb. 1, 2003 , when the space shuttle Columbia broke apart during atmospheric reentry.

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