This is John Bachelor, conversation with my good friend Bob Zimmerman.

This is 14 years of Bob Zimmerman keeping the site behind the black and we need it now because

of various explanations to do with Boeing's Starliner, now moored at the

ISS.

And I asked Bob, are there going to be more of these because of the trouble of this beta starliner?

He answers.

And then we speculate about its return, he answers.

Starliner, still on ISS.

We can expect it back to Earth with its two astronauts at some

point in near future what lessons learned in the shakedown crews.

More on Starliner and Boeing from Bob Zimmerman at Behind the Black.

Is Bob?

That's a good question. I don't know. I mean, it was supposed to be partly reusable like

dragon capsules are. And so if they had lots of

lights and tickets and a real demand for it they might create a fleet like

SpaceX has but they're only supposed to fly every six months for NASA. That's the plan, alternating

with Dragon. That kind of flight schedule, they might be able to get away with just having two capsules.

I don't know exactly the number off the top of my head.

And right now the status of Starliner.

Right now, they have not yet said a return date. I expect that to happen sometime this week, but we'll find out.