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[i]That desire to reuse the capsule drove Boeing's decision to land the spacecraft on land, at one of five selected locations in the western United States, rather than splashing down at sea. "For us, in our baseline, we need to land on land to support capsule reuse," he [John Mulholland, vice president and program manager for the commercial crew program at Boeing] said. Starliner does have the ability to splash down in an emergency, but "if we end up aborting and ditching into the ocean, then we wouldn't reuse that capsule."[/i]
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