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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission prepares to help bring the Starliner astronauts home
With favorable weather forecast at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission was scheduled to launch at 7:49PM ET tonight, before NASA and SpaceX said they would stand down from a launch attempt. The next launch opportunity is March 13th at 7:26PM ET. Once its there, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will finally get a…
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NASA’s Starliner astronauts don’t feel ‘let down’ by Boeing’s spacecraft
NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore spoke about their continued stay aboard the International Space Station during a press conference held yesterday. The two are now fully incorporated into the ISS crew, as the Boeing Starliner spacecraft that was meant to take them home last week was instead sent back to Earth uncrewed. Early on, the two were asked…
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NASA will bring the Starliner astronauts home next year on SpaceX’s Crew-9 mission
NASA administrator Bill Nelson announced today that US astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore will return next February with the SpaceX Crew-9 mission after spending more than 80 days aboard the International Space Station (ISS). According to NASA Commercial Crew Program manager Steve Stich, “As we got more and more data over the summer and understood the uncertainty of that…
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