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BOEING Co’s Starliner astronaut spacecraft made a “bull’s-eye” landing in the New Mexico desert on Sunday, a successful ending to a crewless test mission that two days earlier failed to reach the orbit needed to dock with the International Space Station. The 7:58am ET (1258 GMT) landing at the White Sands desert capped a turbulent 48 hours for Boeing’s botched …

BOEING Co’s Starliner astronaut spacecraft made a “bull’s-eye” landing in the New Mexico desert on Sunday, a successful ending to a crewless test mission that two days earlier failed to reach the orbit needed to dock with the International Space Station. The 7:58am ET (1258 GMT) landing at the White Sands desert capped a turbulent 48 hours for Boeing’s botched …