HOUSTON — The Boeing Starliner will undock from the International Space Station on Friday and return back to Earth without its crew, if all goes according to plan.
Wednesday, NASA will hold a media conference at Houston's Johnson Space Center to discuss the mission.
According to the space agency, the return will start on Friday just after 5 p.m. Six hours later, NASA and Boeing are hoping the spacecraft will be back on solid ground at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico.
KHOU 11 will stream the media conference to this story, as well as the KHOU 11 YouTube page, mobile app and on KHOU 11+.
The astronauts that rode Starliner up to the space station, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, will be stuck in space until at least February when they can catch a ride home with the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. To make room for the stranded astronauts, two members of the SpaceX crew were cut.
Wilmore and WIlliams have been on the ISS since June.
