The return of NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore from the International Space Station (ISS) has been further delayed until at least late March.
NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore's return to Earth will be further delayed until at least late March, the space agency says. The duo had travelled to the ISS in June on what was intended to be a brief test mission, but their return has now been extended by at least nine months.Ms Williams and Mr Wilmore will now return to Earth after the four-member Crew-10 mission, now expected to take off in March, leaves the space station.
NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore's return to Earth will be further delayed until at least late March, the space agency said, taking what should have been an eight-day stay on the International Space Station (ISS) to more than nine months. The duo had travelled to the ISS in June on what was intended to be a brief test mission, but their return wasNASA said Ms Williams and Mr Wilmore, along with NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, would now return to Earth after the four-member Crew-10 mission, now expected to take off in late March, reaches the space station.The agency did not specify an exact date for the return of the astronauts. Colonel Hague and Mr Gorbunov boarded the ISS in September, over three months after Ms Williams and Mr Wilmore. 'Known as a handover period, it allows Crew-9 to share any lessons learned with the newly arrived crew and support a better transition for ongoing science and maintenance at the complex,' the agency added in the statement on Tuesday. The Crew-10 mission was originally slated to launch in February. NASA said the delay was to give the teams time to complete processing on a new SpaceX Dragon spacecraft for the mission.Ms Williams and Mr Wilmore's Starliner test mission was supposed to spell an end to a series of delays and setbacks that had plagued Boeing's space venture since the beginnin
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