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“Wilmore and Williams will continue their work formally as part of the Expedition 71/72 crew through February 2025. They will fly home aboard a Dragon spacecraft with two other crew members assigned to the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission.”

Jessica Taveaunasa.gov ↗

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams flew up in June for a test flight. Helium leaks and thruster problems showed up on June 6, and now they come home in February on SpaceX’s Dragon. Crew-9 drops two of its four seats to make room. NASA calls it a commitment to safety. It is Boeing’s capsule failing the one job a crewed test flight exists to prove.