More than six months after its first crewed mission came to a disappointing end, the future is still murky for Boeing's Starliner astronaut capsule.

That mission, called Crew Flight Test (CFT), launched on June 5, sending NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station (ISS) for a roughly 10-day stay. Starliner made it to the orbiting lab safely, but it experienced propulsion-system helium leaks and thruster failures along the way, and NASA extended CFT repeatedly to study the issues.

Finally, on Aug. 24, the agency decided to bring Starliner home uncrewed, which occurred without incident on Sept. 6 in the New Mexico desert. Williams and Wilmore were reassigned to a long-duration ISS mission, which wrapped up yesterday (March 18) with the splashdown of SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule "Freedom."