Boeing’s Starliner returns but faces an uncertain future

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft successfully returned to Earth early Saturday, ending a flawed three-month mission that forced NASA to make the extraordinary decision to keep a pair of astronauts on the International Space Station rather than fly them home in the troubled capsule. Starliner touched down just after midnight Eastern time on Saturday under a trio of parachutes at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico after surviving the plunge through the Earth’s atmosphere. With the capsule back on ground, NASA and Boeing will begin what they have said would...