The current Expedition-72 crew includes two astronauts transferred from Boeing's CST-100 Starliner flight test last year. Credit: NASA After an unplanned nine-month stay aboard the International ...

Boeing's Starliner astronauts are in the final stretch of their unexpectedly long stint in Earth orbit — and they're setting the record straight on all the "stranded astronauts" talk.

The headliner was Boeing’s first crewed flight of its long-delayed CST-100 Starliner spacecraft, which suffered helium leaks and thruster failures on its propulsion system on its way up to the ISS.