China News Service, May 26. According to foreign media reports, after staying at the space station for about a week, Boeing's "Starliner" spacecraft returned to Earth on May 25, local time, with the help of parachutes and airbags. Landing in the desert of New Mexico.
On May 19, local time, Boeing's "Starliner" was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, United States, to the International Space Station.
Photo courtesy of China News Agency NASA/Joel Kowsky
According to the report, the successful landing brought an end to the critical test flight of the”Starliner”, demonstrating its ability to launch into space, dock with the space station and finally return safely.
This is the second uncrewed test flight of the "Starliner".
It made its first uncrewed test flight in December 2019, but it failed to reach its intended orbit and ended in failure.