The two astronauts will remain on the ISS until February 2025, when they’ll return with two astronauts on the SpaceX Crew-9 mission that’s arriving at the ISS next month.

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      That’s why it was so satisfying to hear all the NASA officials in the press conference be confident that Starliner would fly in the future. Those remarks weren’t some sort of praise for Boeing. Those remarks were NASA’s way of telling Boeing to live up to the fixed-price contract, or else lawyers will get involved.

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      they shit the bed incredibly badly and from what I understand everyone in industry is just rolling with it to claim this is why fixed price contracts aren’t feasible