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[b]Starliner docks to space station[/b] NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aboard Boeing's Starliner spacecraft successfully docked to the International Space Station on Thursday (June 6) at 1:34 p.m. EDT (1734 GMT). As Starliner began its approach to the station, five reaction control system thrusters failed off during flight. Mission teams performed a series of hot-fire tests which re-enabled four of the thrusters while the crew manually piloted the spacecraft at the station's 200-meter hold point. After re-selecting four of the thrusters, Starliner had the fault tolerance required to approach the space station for docking. At the 10-meter hold point, the mission team completed system readiness evaluations and proceeded with docking.
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