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3 Burning Questions We All Have About Boeing Starliner’s Epic Debacle

Boeing’s Starliner, which has been stuck in space since June 6 for what was meant to be an eight day long mission, is at a standstill.

The evaluations NASA will undertake over the next few weeks will determine if Starliner returns to Earth with its crew, or if it comes back alone, and leaves its crew in space for many more months with a return home pushed to next year. There are still many unknowns, but a teleconference NASA held on Wednesday did shed light on some big questions.

NASA gave Boeing a contract a decade ago to build a commercial system to fly astronauts to and from low-Earth orbit. The aerospace giant’s first trial run with astronauts launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center up towards the International Space Station (ISS) on June 5. The mission, called Crew Flight Test, was slated to last eight days. Friday marked mission day 72.

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Before New York Times food critic Pete Wells could review a trendy new burger joint, he needed to go back and eat a few of his favorite burgers for reference. As a video game critic, I have a similar tradition, and in a year where every game developer seems to be debuting a new online multiplayer “hero shooter” game, League of Legends is my reference burger of choice. It’s a damn good burger with the right speed, map, feral monsters, and ingenuous gameplay. But with so many games coming for League’s crown — around 23 this year alone — I can expect a stomachache.

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