The NASA astronauts who were on Boeing's Starliner capsule when it suffered a series of issues talk from the International Space Station, where the spacecraft has been docked for weeks
The country will hear directly from NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams for the first time since the duo left earth on June 5 on Starliner. The astronauts will speak from space at 11 a.m. They were on Boeing's first manned expedition to the International Space Station since the private aeronautics company and NASA agreed to a $4.2 billion public-private partnership in 2014.
They've stressed that the astronauts aren't stranded, and there's no race against the clock to bring them home. Chloe Mehring, the Starliner flight director who coordinated the power-up actions with Wilmore and Williams, said on July 3, 'Starliner is healthy, and no anomalies were written against the spacecraft.
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