'I know if I was in their position I'd be really happy to be there.'
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams docked on the space station in June Two astronauts who have been stuck on the International Space Station for two months won’t be coming down anytime soon, Nasa said today. Sunita Williams and Barry ‘Butch’ Wilmore were only meant to visit the orbital outpost for eight days as part of a test flight. But their ride, Boeing’s Starliner, saw its propulsion system glitch out while docking, forcing Nasa to ask the pair to stay put while engineers conduct tests.
’ Despite the hiccups, Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft docked at the Harmony module’s forward port on July 3 They could be on board the ISS for another eight months, Bowersox said, as they’d have to wait to hitch a ride from a scheduled flight home from SpaceX, Elon Musk’s rocket company. Other than that, the space agency isn’t entirely sure what to do. A decision was expected to be made in mid-August – now it’ll be the last week of the month.
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