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NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are still stranded on the International Space Station after Boeing's plagued Starliner spacecraft finally managed to drop them off last month.
Williams and Wilmore were originally meant to return on June 14 — over three weeks ago — and NASA has yet to announce when its latest attempt will be to bring them back down to Earth. It raises an interesting question: how are Williams and Wilmore feeling about the delay? One former colleague says that the extended stay on board the orbital outpost could actually be a blessing rather than a curse.
"Well, my first reaction was it's probably good news for the two Boeing astronauts," retired Air Force colonel and NASA astronaut Terry Virts. "They're, you know, they get a few bonus weeks in space. And you never know when your next space flight is going to happen, and so I'm sure the astronauts are happy to get some bonus time and space.
"They want to take the big bureaucratic rubber stamp and stamp certified on the Starliner," he said. "You know, and so in order to do that, they basically have some free time" during which "engineers can analyze all the data to understand what's going on with the helium and the jets."Virts also took the opportunity to send a message to Williams and Wilmore.. "And stay busy. You don't want to, you know, just sit around.
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