NASA Again Delays Return Of Starliner Astronauts

USA Today reports:

Boeing and NASA are once again “adjusting” the return home of two astronauts from the International Space Station on the Starliner spacecraft. Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were scheduled to stay at the ISS for just a week after docking there June 6.

Now they aren’t expected to make the trip back to Earth until at least early July, following two scheduled spacewalks and continued assessments of reported issues on the spacecraft, Boeing announced in a June 21 update.

The space organizations have not announced a new return date after most recently saying the astronuats might come back Tuesday or Wednesday.

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Engineers are in a race against time to return two Boeing Starliner astronauts from the ISS. Due to several mechanical issues, the astronauts’ scheduled return 11 days ago has been pushed back multiple times.

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