New York — The POT said Saturday that the two astronauts on Boeing’s first manned mission to the Starliner spacecraft International Space Station (EEI)that They have been stranded there for 80 days After the device presented failures, they will return in February 2025 in a spacecraft SpaceX.
The astronauts Barry ‘Butch’ Wilmore and Sunita ‘Suni’ Williams They were due to return to Earth in mid-June, just over a week after their launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, but thruster failures and small helium leaks in the Starliner prevented its return.
“NASA has decided that Butch and Suni will return with a crew next February and Starliner will return uncrewed.”said the administrator of the US space agency, Bill Nelson, at a press conference in Houston, without specifying when the Boeing ship will return.