had its challenges. the crewless orbital flight was cut short because of a timing problem with the spacecraft which resulted in the capsule ending up in the wrong orbit. the starliner didn't dock to the international space station as planned. however, crews say they were still able to get a lot of helpful information out of the flight that could strengthen nasa's commercial crew program. nasa also says the capsule made a historic ground landing today. >> we brought the spacecraft home, for the first time landing a capsule on land in the united states. we have not done that as a nation before. we have now done it. not just that, we pinpoint landed it which is quite frankly amazing how that was accomplished. >> 3, 2, 1, and liftoff, the rise of starliner, and a new era of human space flight. >> the smooth takeoff from cape canaveral on friday was supposed