Boeing Starliner's return to Earth has been delayed indefinitely, extending a planned nine-day mission to more than a month.
A Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is rolled out from Boeing's Commercial Cargo and Processing Facility in the pre-dawn hours past the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on April 16, 2024.
Flight commander Butch Wilmore and pilot Suni Williams make up Starliner’s two-person crew. The astronauts were initially set to return June 14, but that date was pushed back 12 days to June 26 before further malfunctions arose. Both astronauts are still set to embark on two planned spacewalks — one today, June 24, and another on July 2, according to NASA.
NASA stated a potential return won’t come until after July 2. According to NASA, the crew is not pressed for time to leave the station since there are “plenty of supplies in orbit” and the station’s schedule is “relatively open through mid-August.” The Starliner launch was Boeing’s first foray into space since it was hired alongside Elon Musk’s SpaceX a decade ago to “ferry NASA’s astronauts to and from the space station,” according to. The space agency wanted two competing U.S. companies for the job in the wake of the space shuttles’ retirement, paying $4.2 billion to Boeing and just over half that to SpaceX, which refashioned the capsule it was using to deliver station supplies.
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