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Two astronauts are stuck aboard the ISS after Boeing's Starliner suffered post-launch issues. We explore the causes of the failure, the risks they face, and the steps being taken to rescue them.
Stranded Astronauts Could Be Stuck on the Space Station for Another 5 Months, NASA Says. Story by Victor Tangermann • 2d. N ASA admitted during a live conference today that it still isn't ...
How stranded astronauts who went to ISS on 8-day voyage are preparing for possible 6 months in space By . Steve Helling. Published Aug. 8, 2024, 7:05 p.m. ET.
After being stranded for over nine months, NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore are set to undock from the ...
Whether the astronauts are stranded or not, NASA now faces a difficult decision it needs to make within the next week or so about the safest way to bring them back to Earth.
They’re temporary extraterrestrials about to phone home. The NASA astronauts already trapped in space for months are due to call Earth on Friday afternoon to discuss their ongoing plight that ...
NASA Astronauts, Stranded in Space for 10 Months, Expected To Return to Earth as Early as Sunday ‘We’ll be coming home, riding the plasma, splashing in the ocean, so that’s what we’re looking forward ...
Updated August 24, 2024 at 15:25 PM ET. Boeing’s Starliner will come back to Earth empty, and the two astronauts who took it up into orbit on a test flight will return in a capsule built by a ...
It could have also returned the astronauts at any point in the past six months or so. NASA / The SpaceX Dragon Freedom spacecraft is pictured docked at the International Space Station on Monday ...
Stranded NASA Astronauts Share Their Reaction When Learning They Had to Stay in Space for Months, Not Days Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth earlier this month after unexpectedly ...
Back in 2014, NASA announced a pair of "groundbreaking" contracts, granted to Boeing and SpaceX, aiming to bring the job of ferrying astronauts to and from the orbiting International Space Station ...