The two NASA astronauts who have been stuck on the International Space Station since their Boeing spacecraft ran into problems in June will have to remain there even longer, the agency announced Tuesday. They include NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who launched on the challenge-plagued first test flight of Boeing’s Starliner vehicle. The two originally intended to spend about a week at the space station but will wind up having lived and worked in orbit for more than nine months, including the added time for the latest delay. When the capsule launches — a mission known as Crew-10 — it is expected to carry NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Russian cosmonaut Kirill Peskov and Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi. Until then, the foursome will continue training for their mission at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, NASA said.

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Persons: crew’s, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, Williams, Wilmore, Nick Hague, Aleksandr Gorbunov, ” Steve Stich, Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers, Kirill Peskov, Takuya Onishi Organizations: NASA, Space, Boeing, SpaceX, Flickr Officials, Space Center Locations: Florida, Russian, Houston