NASA delays next crew launch to buy time at the space station for troubled Starliner
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Starliner's test pilots, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, should have returned by mid-June. NASA is weighing its options for returning the two, including a ride home in a rival SpaceX capsule.
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