Starliner's Space Drama You Didn’t Hear About
On June 5, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams launched aboard Boeing’s Starliner after months of delays. Mid-flight, four thrusters failed, and Wilmore had to manually steer the ship toward the International Space Station—think parallel parking a school bus in orbit. Coming back wasn’t any safer, so they pushed forward. In a rare interview, the two astronauts open up about the white-knuckle ride that turned routine space travel into a high-stakes thriller.