Originally set to return in mid-June, Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams may be on the station until February, 2025.
During a press conference today, NASA representatives confirmed they have a contingency plan to bring astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams home from the International Space Station (ISS) early next year. If they’re unable to leave sooner aboard the Boeing Starliner spacecraft that brought them there
Tests conducted at NASA’s White Sands Test Facility pointed to deformed Teflon seals being a potential cause of the Starliner’s thrusters failing, but the agency isn’t expected to make a final decision on whether or not Williams and Wilmore will return using Boeing’s spacecraft until mid-August.
Just sit right back
And you’ll hear a tale
A tale of a fateful trip,
That started from a tropic port,
Aboard this tiny ship.
The mate was a mighty sailin’ lass.
The Skipper brave and sure,
Two passengers set sail that day,
For an eight day tour,
A eight day tour.
I started reading this to Fresh Prince, and I got pretty far before I realized it should be Gilligan.