Boeing has faced mechanical problems, safety problems, grounded planes, stranded astronauts, executive departures, a strike, and layoffs in 2024.
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, the Boeing Starliner astronauts who remained in space following the spacecraft's return to Earth, will not depart the International Space Station until the spring following a schedule change from NASA.
Two astronauts who have been stuck in space since June will have to wait until at least the end of March to come home after NASA on Wednesday again pushed back their return date. Derrick Pitts, chief astronomer for the Franklin Institute, joined CBS News ...
The two NASA astronauts stuck in space after Boeing’s Starliner experienced issues earlier this year have been hit with a new delay. Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were part of Boeing’s long-delayed mission in early June.
File today's space story under the lyric, "Second verse, same as the first." It's been nearly six years now since President Trump (v1.0) announced plans to land Americans on the moon in 2024 under "Project Artemis.
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been stuck in space for months longer than expected, and will not return to Earth until at least March 2025 at the earliest, NASA indicated.
The crew launched to the ISS in June for a week-long mission but will end up spending an unplanned nine months in space.
NASA's next crew of four was originally set to launch in February, with Wilmore and Williams returning home by the end of the month alongside two other astronauts. However, SpaceX requires additional time to ready the new capsule for flight, pushing the launch to late March at the earliest.
Though it isn't expected to launch until 2026 at the earliest, NASA is quietly preparing its SLS rocket for the Artemis II lunar mission.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe is operating normally and remains on schedule for a record-setting close encounter with the Sun on Christmas Eve, mission controllers say.
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.