 Number three. The crew of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft said they are confident the capsule will safely bring them from the International Space Station to Earth, despite numerous mechanical malfunctions. NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore. We are actually doing thruster testing as we speak at White Sands, New Mexico, going through that process, trying to replicate what we saw on that flight day two when we were rendezvousing, and we're going to learn from that. NASA estimates Starliner will return to Earth by the end of this month.