Boeing, Starliner and NASA Astronauts
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"Responsibility with Boeing? Yes. Responsibility with NASA? Yes. All the way up and down the chain."
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Williams posted the clip Sunday on X with the caption, “Best homecoming ever!”
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“I don’t know that we can come back to Earth at that point,” Wilmore admitted to Ars, recalling a moment mid-mission when the crew realized they were down to a single layer of fault tolerance.
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NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, who were stuck in space for more than nine months, took questions after returning to Earth.
All told, Williams and Wilmore traveled more than 121 million miles during their mission, spent 286 days in space, and completed 4,576 Earth orbits.
The space agency announced on Thursday its plans to certify the problem-plagued spacecraft this year and potentially send the capsule back to orbit before 2026.
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NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams indicated they’d be willing to travel on Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft again in the future. They both clocked 286 days in space.
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Space.com on MSNBoeing's next Starliner launch for NASA could slip to early 2026 after fixes"It is likely to be in the timeframe of late this calendar year or early next year for the next Starliner flight."
Turns out, NASA is still looking to use Starliner to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station and Boeing is onboard, working to solve the thruster issue that led to NASA deciding to have the Starliner that carried Wilmore and Williams to the ISS return to Earth empty.
NASA’s celebrity astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams said Monday that they hold themselves partly responsible for what went wrong on
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Daily Express US on MSNNASA astronauts say they would fly on Boeing's Starliner capsule again despite problemsThe two astronauts ended up spending 286 days in space - 278 days more than planned when they blasted off on Boeing's first astronaut flight on June 5.