The astronauts have been onboard the ISS for more than 60 days.
In this June 24, 2024 file photo provided by NASA, Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, center, pose with Expedition 71 Flight Engineers Mike Barratt, left, and Tracy Dyson, aboard the International Space Station's Quest airlock.on Wednesday that the astronauts who went up to the International Space Station on Boeing's Starliner may have to come home on a different space craft.
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who performed the first crewed test flight of Starliner, have been in space for more than 60 days. When theyBoeing and NASA officials have been resistant to exploring the option to bringing the crew home on another method but Kenneth Bowersox, NASA's associate administrator for space operations, said the team is considering it.
"We don't just have to bring a crew back on Starliner for example. We can bring them back on another vehicle," he said. "In the case that we have with the Starliner crew flight test, the option to either bring the crew home on Starliner or to bring the crew home on another vehicle, we could take either path."
Bowersox said there is currently more "consensus" needed among the team, but they are also getting "more serious about evaluating our other options."
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