The vice president leading Boeing's Starliner spacecraft unit, Mark Nappi, has left his role in the program and been replaced by the company's International Space Station program manager, John Mulholland,
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams flew to the ISS in the summer of 2024 for a routine eight-day test mission. However, due to problems with the propulsion system of Boeing’s Starliner capsule,
A spokesperson with NASA, which oversees SpaceX’s flights to the ISS, said “NASA and SpaceX are expeditiously working to safely return the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore as soon as practical, while also preparing for the launch of Crew-10 to complete a handover between expeditions.”
"NASA and SpaceX are expeditiously working to safely return the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore as soon as practical, while also preparing for the launch of Crew-10 to complete a handover between expeditions," Cheryl Warner, NASA's news chief at the agency's headquarters, said in a statement to reporters.
President Trump said Tuesday that he “asked Elon Musk and @SpaceX to ‘go get’ the 2 brave astronauts who have been virtually abandoned in space.” “I have just asked Elon Musk and @SpaceX to
Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will conduct a spacewalk outside the International Space Station to swab the orbiting lab for evidence of microorganisms.
President Donald Trump took to Truth Social Tuesday evening, vowing vow to bring the NASA pilots home after being stranded in space since the summer.
Despite the statement from President Trump, NASA had already scheduled the astronauts' return for late March or April.
The four American astronauts aboard the ISS, including the Boeing Starliner crew, spoke to USA TODAY in an exclusive interview Tuesday.
Milestones like Sierra Space’s Joint Test 10B are needed to confirm Dream Chaser’s “ability to handle specialized payloads such as vital scientific research,” Pablo Gonzalez, Sierra Space Vice President of Crew and Cargo Transportation Systems, said in a statement earlier this week.
Nasa astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore completed a record-setting 5.5-hour spacewalk outside the ISS, adding to Williams' impressive achiev