Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will spend additional weeks in orbit as teams on the ground study malfunctioning thrusters on the Starliner spacecraft.
An extensive examination of medical data gathered from the private Inspiration4 mission in 2021 revealed temporary cognitive declines and genetic changes in the crew.
The company achieved a key set of ambitious goals on the fourth test flight of a vehicle that is central to Elon Muskβs vision of sending people to Mars.
The launch marks a long-delayed win for the aerospace giant, and the next step in NASAβs reliance on the private sector for its human spaceflight program.
As it studies cosmic microwaves, the Simons Observatory in Chile aims to help prove or disprove cosmic inflation, a notion that the universe expanded rapidly in the moment after the Big Bang.