This is a series

a series of the world. I'm John Bachelor. Behind the Black Bob Zimmerman is here to take us to the I assess, wedded to Starliner and the fate of Starliner and its crew.

Bob a very good evening to you. The press conference was over the weekend.

Were you surprised in any fashion? Good evening to you.

No, the trend had been moving very clearly in the direction that

NASA was going to choose to not use Starliner to bring these astronauts back

and that's what administrator, the not use Starliner to bring these astronauts back.

And that's what Administrator Bill Nelson announced

right off the bat at the press conference.

They've said, they've made a decision

because of the uncertainties of the thrusters on Starlida, though they think they would work fine,

there is an uncertainty.

And so Bill Nelson said that uncertainty means we really have to take a decision based on safety.

And so they're going to have the two astronauts remain on board, ISS, till February.

The next Dragon mission at a launch will only have two astronauts on board.

It'll carry two spacesuits, extra spacesuits for the two astronauts from Starliner.

Those are that mission is supposed to last six months.

And so the two astronauts on ISS,

Butch Wilmore and Scenic Williams,

those Starliner astronauts will join that dragon crew complete the rest of the six month

mission and come back in February on dragon. A Starliner itself is going to be

prepped to come back sometime in September probably as close to the arrival of this next

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