NASA and Boeing are continuing to conduct ground tests to see why five of the spacecraft’s thrusters stopped working during the approach to the space station.
Barry “Butch” Wilmore, left, and Suni Williams inside the vestibule between the International Space Station and Boeing's Starliner spacecraft.
“Really what we’re doing is just taking the time to make sure that we have looked under every rock and every stone,” Stich said. “Just to make sure that there’s nothing else that would surprise us.” On Wednesday, he reiterated that the “prime option today is to return Butch and Suni on Starliner. Right now, we don’t see any reason why that wouldn’t be the case.” Referring to SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, he added that “we have two vehicles, two different systems that we could use to return crew, and so we have a little bit more time to go through the data and then make a decision as to whether we need to do anything different.
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