NASA astronauts say they’d fly the Boeing craft again: "I’d get on in a heartbeat"

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NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth more than nine months past their initial return date, but say they'd go to space again on the same Boeing Starliner that failed them.

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00:00Given the opportunity, would you guys go up on Saturn Liner again?

00:05Yes, because we're going to rectify all the issues that we that we encountered.

00:10Yeah. We're going to fix it. We're going to make it work.

00:14Boeing's completely committed, NASA is completely committed, and with that I get on in a heartbeat.

00:21Yeah, I would agree. The spacecraft is really capable.

00:25There were a couple things that need to be fixed, like Butch mentioned, and

00:29folks are actively working on that, but it is a great spacecraft and it has a lot of capability

00:36that other spacecraft don't have, and to see that thing successful

00:39and to be part of that program is an honor.

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