Boeing's Starliner capsule will return to Earth today. Here's how to watch live.

You can watch the Starliner return to Earth live.

The Starliner will leave the International Space Station at 2:36 p.m. The parachute-aided touchdown was made about four hours later at 6:49 p.m. at the White Sands Missile Range. The time is 2249 GMT.

You can watch the action live at Space.com or via NASA TV. The coverage will start at 2 p.m. The deorbit and landing operations will be broadcast on the internet. The time is 2145 GMT.

Live updates: Boeing Starliner Orbital Flight Test 2 mission to ISS

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Orbital Flight Test-2 is a critical uncrewed mission designed to show that Starliner is ready to carry astronauts to and from space. Boeing and SpaceX have contracts with NASA to provide the taxi service, and both have already launched missions to the International Space Station.

The OFT-2 kicked off last Thursday when Starliner flew into space on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. More than 500 pounds of food and other supplies were delivered to the astronauts aboard the International Space Station after the capsule arrived at the station.

The Starliners will bring down about 600 pounds of cargo, including threeNORS tanks, which provide atmospheric gases to the lab.

The capsule could end up carrying astronauts if everything goes well. A potential crewed flight test to the International Space Station is being eyed by Boeing and NASA.

NASA will not certify Starliner for crewed flight until it has analyzed all of the data from OFT-2. Two of the capsule's thrusters failed about 30 minutes after liftoff, and the mission hasn't gone perfectly. A backup engine picked up the slack.

The OFT had a lot of bigger issues. Starliner got stranded in an elliptical ellipse for a rendezvous with the International Space Station due to a series of software problems. The OFT-2 was supposed to launch last summer, but mission team members discovered a problem with the valves in Starliner's propulsion system that took about eight months to fix.

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