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Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, the crew of the first manned Boeing Starliner launch in early June, were initially meant to spend only about eight days in space.
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NASA's two stuck astronauts just got their space mission extended again. That means they won't be back until spring, 10 months after rocketing into orbit on Boeing's Starliner capsule.
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NASA delayed the return of two astronauts stranded on the ISS after a Boeing mission failed in the summer. Astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams will now return in March 2025.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — When Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams first boarded the Starliner and prepared to launch into orbit, they expected to return to Earth after around a week. They were sent on a mission to test Boeing's spacecraft and ensure it was safe to use.
A pair of NASA astronauts who have been stuck at the International Space Station since June will have to wait a little longer to come back to Earth. NASA says astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams won’t return now until late March or even April,
Barry Wilmore and Suni Williams will now come home in March at the earliest, to allow SpaceX and NASA engineers to complete development of a new Crew Dragon spacecraft.
Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams were previously expected to return in February after spending several months longer in orbit than planned.
A technology demonstration involving NASA's Astrobee robot was carried out aboard the International Space Station (ISS), with astronaut Sunita Williams, Expedition 72 Commander, posing alongside the innovative robotic system in a newly released image.
The Space Coast set a new launch record in 2023 with 72 orbital missions from either Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The pace of launches could ramp up by the end of 2024 to a near twice-weekly rate with as many as 111 missions possible.