Boeing Starliner

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, the two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station (ISS), will have to wait even longer, NASA has announced.

Four astronauts have returned safely to Earth after a nearly eight-month stay on the International Space Station. The stay was extended due to Boeing’s technical problems with the capsule Starliner and the extreme weather caused by Hurricane Milton.

The SpaceX crew that will ferry back in February two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station docked with the orbiting laboratory on Sunday, a live stream of the mission showed.

The Falcon 9 rocket took off at 1:17 pm (1717 GMT) from Cape Canaveral, Florida on Saturday, with the Crew-9 mission aboard a Dragon spacecraft making contact with the ISS at 5:30 pm Sunday.

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were supposed to stay in space for eight days, but will now remain there for eight months due to ongoing issues with the Starliner. These problems led to the difficult decision not to use this spacecraft to bring the two American astronauts back to Earth.

Suni Williams and Barry Wilmore were initially supposed to stay on the ISS for only one week, but they have now been in space for nearly three months.

The two astronauts of the Starliner remain on the International Space Station, as their return trip to Earth, scheduled for today (June 26), will not take place.

To put it mildly, when Starliner makes its first attempt at launching on May 6, a lot more than the two astronauts aboard will be banking on its success

NASA again delays launch date