she was pulled from the launch by NASA. The space agency did not disclose why the crew change was made. In a 2018 interview for a technology conference, Epps said “it was a decision of my management and is something that we are going to try and continue to work through.”Epps will make it to the station 200 miles above Earth but on a different ride and launching from her home country.Boeing is still working to certify its astronaut capsule to fly humans as part of NASA Commercial Crew Program.
In December the CST-100 Starliner launched on an uncrewed test flight to the ISS but after several issues was forced to return to Earth 48 hours later without reaching the space station.