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Sunday, August 25, 2024
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) said that Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore will return home from the International Space Station (ISS) in February 2025 on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. The Crew Dragon will carry two astronauts to the ISS instead of the planned 4 to allow room for for Williams and Wilmore. The Boeing Starliner will return to Earth “un-crewed”, possibly next month. Steve Stich, the manager of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program said they didn’t know if Starliner’s thrusters would fail at critical moments.
The two NASA astronauts were launched during Starliner’s crewed test flight on June 5 for an eight day long mission to the ISS. On it’s way to the ISS, Starliner experienced helium leaks and several thruster malfunctions, which according to NPR, “inexplicably conked out as Starliner approached the station”.
