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Astronauts confident Boeing space capsule can safely return them to Earth, despite failures
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If I understand it correctly, they were confident a while ago already that they could return safely, but they're taking advantage of the situation to do some tests and experiments to learn more about the failure.
(If you disagree, go yell at Scott Manley, I heard it in one of his recent videos.)