‘We simply lacked time’: Boeing Starliner astronauts on why their spaceship went back to Earth without them
NASA astronauts Suni Williams (left) and Butch Wilmore, who flew to the International Space Station on Boeing's Starliner pill in June 2024, discuss their objective throughout an interview from the ISS on Sept. 13. (Image credit: NASA)
Boeing's Starliner pill may have had the ability to complete its objective as prepared if time had actually been on its side.Starliner introduced June 5 on its first-ever crewed flight, a trial run that sent out NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore to the International Space Station (ISS). The duo were expected to survive on the orbiting laboratory for simply a week or two, however NASA extended their stay to about 3 months while studying thruster concerns that appeared throughout Starliner's rendezvous with the ISS.Eventually, the comp...