Spaceflight veterans Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore arrived at the space station aboard the Starliner on June 6.
It’s not uncommon for astronauts to unexpectedly extend their stay aboard the space station — for days, weeks or even months.
But the situation makes for a moment of uncertainty and embarrassment that joins a long list of similar blunders by the Boeing Starliner program, which is already years behind schedule.
The Starliner spacecraft on NASA's Boeing Crew Flight Test is pictured docked to the Harmony module's forward port on June 13 as the International Space Station orbited 262 miles above Egypt's Mediterranean coast.
The first Starliner test mission, flown without crew in late 2019, was riddled with missteps.
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CNN —, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, Williams, Wilmore, it’s, “, ”, Steve Stich, Mark Nappi, It’s, Stich, Starliner, Wilmore —, Robert Behnken, Douglas Hurley, Joel Kowsky, Bob Behnken, Doug Hurley —, Hurley, Behnken’s, ” Stich, Michael Lembeck, Lembeck, —, Dragon, ” Lembeck, ” Nappi, “ Everything’s, ” Williams
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CNN, NASA, International, Spaceflight, Boeing, NASA's Boeing, Harmony, SpaceX, International Space, University of Illinois
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firma, University of Illinois Urbana, Champaign