Starliner astronauts will remain in space until 2025 Boeing’s Starliner is returning to Earth without astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aboard. NASA announced the news on Saturday, saying the uncrewed return allows NASA and Boeing to continue gathering testing data on Starliner, while avoiding risk for its crew. Reuters reporter Joey Roulette joins LiveNOW from FOX. The Brief The SpaceX rocket that will bring home two NASA astronauts stranded in space launched successfully Saturday from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been at the International Space Station since June, when their Boeing capsule began suffering problems that made a ride home too risky. SpaceX’s return flight carrying Wilmore and Williams won’t be until February. SpaceX launched a rocket Saturday that will bring home two NASA astronauts that have been stranded at the International Space Station for months. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft launched at 1:17 p.m. ET with two empty seats, saving room to bring home Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams. But the rocket won’t be returning to earth until February - meaning Wilmore and Williams will have to wait until then before returning home, more than eight months after launching on what should have been a weeklong mission. Here’s what happened: