NASA announced a delay to the return flight of astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, who launched aboard Boeing's Starliner in June. The delay, caused by a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft integration for the Crew-10 mission, will see the pair spend at least nine months in space instead of the original 10 days.
A pair of astronauts who launched aboard Boeing 's Starliner spacecraft in June for a 10-day trip to the International Space Station will now spend at least nine months in space, after NASA announced yet another delay to their return flight.
"Fabrication, assembly, testing, and final integration of a new spacecraft is a painstaking endeavor that requires great attention to detail," Steve Stich, the manager of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, said in the blog post. Related: NASA warns of potential 'catastrophic failure' on leaking ISS — but Russia doesn't want to fix it
Wilmore and Williams have inadvertently become long-term residents of the ISS, though their trip is not threatening any records. For example, astronaut Scott Kelly stayed aboard the ISS for 340 days between 2015 and 2016 as part of a twin study — his astronaut twin brother Mark stayed on Earth so researchers could compare the two and learn about the impacts of space on health and physiology. In 2023, astronaut Frank Rubio spent a year straight in orbit, the first American to do so.
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