NASA Announced Saturday it would bring home astronaut Barry butch and Sunita Williams

NASA has finally revealed how it plans to pull off its newest Mission getting two astronauts back to Earth their Saga began with what was supposed to be an 8-day test flight into orbit aboard Boeing Starliner capsule well now instead of eight days it will be eight months all of it a blow to an American Aviation giant now Stumbling In Space cbs's Mark stman is in Houston tonight and leads us off with the very latest Mark David this is one of the most consequential safety decisions for NASA in a generation to bring home these two astronauts the space agency will now look past Boeing Starliner to Boeing's competitor SpaceX NASA has decided that Butch and sunny will return with crew n next February NASA's decision switch spaceships and space companies mid-mission ignition back in June astronauts Butch Wilmore and sunny Williams flew to the International Space Station on Boeing Starliner but now they'll fly home next February in a SpaceX crew Dragon despite Boeing's insistence Starliner is safe to fly them back you know it's disappointing that uh that they're not coming home on Starliner but that's okay it's a test flight NASA spent weeks analyzing issues Starliner developed on its flight to the ISS specifically helium leaks and the overheating of small maneuvering thrusters that propulsion system is critical to the return flight home including undocking and the braking burn on the return to Earth the small engines need to fire hundreds of times to keep the spacecraft in the precise orientation for safe re-entry and on target touchdown instead Starliner will return uncrewed next month there was just too much uncertainty in the prediction of the thrusters it was just too much risk with the crew in a statement Boeing said we continue to focus first and foremost on the safety of the crew and spacecraft we are executing the mission as determined by NASA but NASA's decision is bound to frustrate the Legacy Aerospace Giant in what the space agency admitted was a dramatic change so how now do you begin to rebuild that relationship of trust with boing oh I don't think we're we're rebuilding trust I think we're looking at the data and we view the data and the uncertainty that's there differently than Boeing does the two astronauts originally were supposed to spend 8 days on the space station today is their day 80 in space and now they have another 6 months more to go David just have to get them home safely mark stman thank you so much