NASA has decided that Butch and Suni will return with Crew-9 next February," said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson at the outset of a news conference on Saturday afternoon.
During that gathering of the agency's senior officials, an informal 'go/no go' poll was taken. Those present voted unanimously for Wilmore and Williams to return to Earth on Crew Dragon.
Boeing's Starliner spacecraft will undock from the station early next month and attempt to make an autonomous return to Earth and land in a desert in the southwestern United States.
This announcement has big implications for Boeing, which entered NASA's Commercial Crew Program more than a decade ago and lent legitimacy to NASA's efforts to pay private companies for transporting astronauts.
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