YYou wouldn’t board a plane if your chances of coming home alive were only 1 in 270. But that probability is what NASA considers an acceptable LOC, or crew loss, projection for a 210-day stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Beating that mortal bill was a major concern for NASA officials at an Aug. […]

The last time I spoke to Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams — the two astronauts now stranded aboard the International Space Station (ISS) — was on May 1, 2024. At the time, they were in medical quarantine at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, preparing for launch on May 6. The plan was for a […]