CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA decided Saturday that it was too risky to return two astronauts to Earth in Boeing’s new, troubled capsule. They will have to wait until next year for a flight home with SpaceX. What was supposed to be a week-long test flight for the pair will now take more than […]
June 14 (UPI) – The Starliner’s return to Earth will now be postponed until June 22 or later, NASA announced Friday. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who launched on the long-awaited Boeing Starliner mission on June 5 and docked with the International Space Station the following day, will have to spend a little […]
NASA is considering keeping the two astronauts who flew to the International Space Station in Boeing’s space capsule there until February because of problems with the spacecraft during the flight. The agency said Wednesday that it was still studying options for returning NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams safely to Earth and that no […]
NASA is keeping its two astronauts who flew to the International Space Station on Boeing’s Starliner safely on board until next year, when they will fly home on a SpaceX Crew Dragon. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams “NASA has decided that Butch (Wilmore) and Suni (Williams) will return with Crew-9 next February and that Starliner […]
Butch Wilmore, NASA Boeing Crew Flight Test Commander.Joe Raedle/Getty Images Due to delays with the Boeing Starliner, two NASA astronauts are stranded on the International Space Station. Butch Wilmore camped in a sleeping bag in the Japanese space agency’s module, Time reported. According to Time, the duo is probably currently doing odd jobs on the […]
Two NASA astronauts are in space weeks longer than expected as Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft continues to undergo repairs. But the interstellar duo, flight commander Barry “Butch” Wilmore and pilot Sunita “Suni” Williams, managed to stay positive, according to a press conference on Wednesday. “We’re having a great time here on the ISS,” Williams said Wednesday. […]
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – NASA said a “spacesuit discomfort issue” forced the cancellation of a spacewalk planned for two U.S. astronauts outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday, about an hour before their repair mission was scheduled to begin. NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson and Matt Dominick, two of the orbiting laboratory’s […]
Astronauts on the International Space Station were forced to seek shelter last night after a Russian satellite broke into over 100 pieces. The nine astronauts living on the space station were told to seek shelter in their respective spaceships, so NASAafter the debris was discovered. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunni Williams boarded their Starliner […]
Two NASA astronauts, whose week-long mission is now in its second month, could remain in orbit until next year. Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were launched into space in June on a test flight of the Boeing Starliner. However, when docking with the International Space Station, helium leaks occurred in the spacecraft and several […]
