They were on board the first crewed test flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, which has since experienced technical problems preventing their return.
If there is a virtue that Butch Wilmore et Suni Williams will have learned in space, it is patience. The two astronauts, who have been stuck since June in the international space station (ISS) will still have to wait for their return to Earth.
They had left for just eight days for the first crewed test flight of the Boeing Starliner when their situation became complicated due to problems with the propulsion system, details 20 Minutes.
Their return was first delayed before being postponed. As the technical fault has not been resolved, the flight will return empty. The American space agency therefore decided to bring back its two castaways from space with la mission de SpaceX Crew-9 who left with two astronauts instead of four to make room for Butch and Suni. Everyone is now waiting for the arrival of Crew-10 who will take over from them.
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But finally NASA announced this Tuesday, December 17 that the mission will be delayed and that it will be “end of March at the earliest”. In fact, the mission which is to take over from them, scheduled for February, will take off later than planned, “time to complete the development of a new Dragon spacecraft”according to the American agency cited by FranceInfo.
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