The veteran astronauts expected to stay for a week or so at the space station during a test flight of Boeing's new Starliner capsule, but their return trip has…
It's now three weeks and counting for Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams as NASA and Boeing troubleshoot equipment problems that popped up on the way thereon a test drive of Boeing's new capsule, they expected to head home from the International Space Station in a week or so.This week, Boeing said the Starliner capsule's problems aren’t a concern for the return trip and"the astronauts are not stranded.
“We’re just taking a little more extra time to review all the data and also learn as much as we can while we have this service module in orbit," Steve Stich, NASA’s commercial crew program manager, said at a news conference last week before the latest postponement. The space agency also said it didn't want the departure to conflict with spacewalks. This week's spacewalk was called off after water leaked from an astronaut’s spacesuit while she was still inside the orbiting lab. Tuesday's spacewalk was still on the schedule., as the capsule closed in on the space station. All but one thruster was restarted, and they worked during a later test firing, NASA said.
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft carried two astronauts aboard its historic launch Wednesday from Cape Canaveral.
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