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SpaceX may have to rescue stranded NASA astronauts after Boeing blunder (stuck in space for 2+ months, mission was only supposed to last 8 days)
Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams may have to wait until 2025 to come back to Earth.
NASA is working with Elon Musk’s SpaceX on plans to return two astronauts to Earth in the event that they’re unable to travel on the troubled Boeing Co. craft that initially carried them to space. NASA representatives announced the contingency plan Wednesday, saying astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams could come back to Earth around February 2025 with a two-person crew on SpaceX’s Crew-9 mission. “Our chances of an uncrewed Starliner return has increased a little bit based on where things have gone over the last week or two,” Ken Bowersox, NASA’s associate administrator for space operations, said during a press conference.
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