7:28 p.m. ET Boeing’s Starliner is finally coming home, but the two NASA astronauts who traveled in the spacecraft to the International Space Station are not. At 6:04 p.m. Eastern time on Friday, hooks that held Starliner tight to the space station retracted, and springs on the spacecraft pushed it away from the docking port. At that moment, it was about 260 miles above central China. Then a series of thruster firings gently nudged Starliner up and over the space station. “Starliner is now on a path back to Earth,” Anna Schneider, a NASA spokeswoman, said about 20 minutes after the vehicle undocked and reached a distance far enough away that space station flight controllers no longer needed to keep an eye on it. The uncrewed @Boeing #Starliner spacecraft has departed the space station undocking from the Harmony module's forward port at 6:04pm ET today. More... https://t.co/2SfoRtuiON pic.twitter.com/pp9Zua6jN7