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Jared Isaacman, 41, (left) led the four-member team who landed in the ocean at 3.37am, a webcast of the splashdown showed, with a recovery team deploying in the pre-dawn darkness to retrieve the Dragon spacecraft and crew. The capsule was lifted from the water and onto the recovery vessel half an hour later. After brief medical checks, a smiling and waving SpaceX engineer Anna Menon was the first of the crew to exit, followed by engineer Sarah Gillis, pilot Scott Poteet and commander Isaacman. A helicopter was due to transport them to land. The team launched on Tuesday from the Kennedy Space Center, quickly journeying deeper into the cosmos than any humans in the past half century as they ventured into the dangerous Van Allen radiation belt.

NASA decided Saturday it's too risky to bring two astronauts back to Earth in Boeing's troubled new capsule, and they'll have to wait until next year for a ride home with SpaceX.  What should have been a weeklong test flight for the pair will now last more than eight months. Their empty Starliner capsule will undock in early September and attempt to return on autopilot and touch down in the New Mexico desert

The return of two astronauts who are 'stranded' on the ISS now sits at an undetermined date. Experts have revealed the reason why NASA and Boeing are delaying the return and other options that could be on the table. Starliner had a known helium leak when it launched on June 5 at 10:52am ET from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The capsule then encountered five failures of its 28 maneuvering thrusters, five leaks of helium gas meant to pressurize those thrusters and a slow-moving propellant valve that signaled unfixed past issues since launching. When Starliner arrived in the space station to dock on June 6, the five thruster failures prevented a close approach by the spacecraft until Boeing made a fix.