Two NASA astronauts who were supposed to return to Earth in mid-June may have to extend their stay for another six months and hitch a ride aboard a SpaceX spacecraft if issues with Boeing’s Starliner capsule continue.
The Brief NASA officials said on Wednesday that they may attempt to bring back astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams in February 2025 if issues with the Boeing Starliner spacecraft cannot be resolved. RELATED: NASA : No return date yet for astronauts aboard ISSWilmore and Williams were meant to visit the International Space Station for a little over a week and return in mid-June, but thruster failures aboard the Starliner spacecraft have kept them in space for two months now.
"Now we haven’t approved this plan, in other words, we’ve done all the work to make sure this plan is there. We have the suits identified to fly up on Crew-9, we have the seats set up so that we can fly a multiple complement of people, but we have not turned that on, formally, as that’s the path that we’re going to go down," Stitch said during a conference call with media. NASA management expects to see SpaceX's full plan next week.
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