NASA preparing mission to bring stranded Boeing Starliner astronauts back to Earth from ISS

Places on NASA’s Crew-9 mission have been reduced to make room for Wilmore and Williams on the return trip.

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00:00We're going to launch as a two-person crew and then we're going to land as a four-person

00:21crew and one of the unique challenges of that is how do we integrate the other two crew

00:26members into the Dragon operations when they've had very minimal Dragon training before they

00:31launched.

00:32The teams on the ground have helped not only get us ready but they've already started helping

00:38Butch and Sonny train to understand what they're going to need to do inside of the Dragon.

00:52We're excited to fly in two different spacecraft.

00:54I mean, we're testers.

00:56That's what we do.

00:57You know, we look at different aircraft, spacecraft, whatever, evaluate it, and that's a pretty

01:03unique opportunity.