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NASA astronaut bumped from Soyuz flight added to Starliner mission – SpaceNews

A NASA astronaut dropped from a mission to the International Space Station more than two years ago will now fly on a Starliner in 2021.

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WASHINGTON A NASA astronaut dropped from a mission to the International Space Station more than two years ago will get a second opportunity as part of a Boeing commercial crew mission.
NASA announced Aug. 25 that Jeanette Epps had been assigned to the first operational CST-100 Starliner mission to the station. She joins NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Josh Cassada, who were assigned to what the agency calls the Starliner-1 mission in 2018.
Epps was originally assigned in 2017 to ISS Expedi…

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