Two astronauts stranded in house for greater than 60 days might must preserve orbiting the Earth till early 2025 … as a result of their Boeing spacecraft seems unable to deliver them residence.
NASA is now saying Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams might have to be rescued from the Worldwide Area Station by a spacecraft from a rival firm … Elon Musk‘s SpaceX.
The pair took a Boeing Starline spacecraft to the ISS in June however the maiden voyage has been a catastrophe … with helium leaks and thruster failures stopping them from taking the spaceship residence.
Butch and Suni have been solely speculated to be on the ISS for every week … but it surely’s wanting more and more possible they are going to be up there till someday subsequent yr.
NASA says the astronauts may have to come back again on the SpaceX Dragon Crew-9 mission … the spacecraft will not launch till September and would not be capable of deliver Butch and Suni residence till February.
This new plan has not been set in stone but … there are many events concerned right here, and a Boeing crew coming again on a SpaceX mission can be an enormous embarrassment for Boeing.
For now, Butch and Suni stay on the ISS … serving to different astronauts with duties.
The clock is ticking although, as a result of they’re inflicting further pressure on ISS provides.
