Technical problems with Starliner meant they couldn’t return on schedule and must instead fly back aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule. Were they stranded? Could they have come
The president is trying to pull a political stunt by claiming to rescue the two astronauts, but the Starliner crew shut it down.
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunny Williams have been waiting for nine months to return from the International Space Station and could be heading back to Earth in a few weeks. President Trump and Elon Musk are claiming they could have returned sooner,
The NASA astronauts are now scheduled to return from the International Space Station in late March aboard a Dragon capsule, nearly nine months after they blasted off.
Stranded Boeing Starliner astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore have been stuck in space for 264 days — on a trip that should have lasted about a week — but Williams’ mom says that the snafu was an honor and that her daughter is happy aboard the International Space Station.
NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have spent the last nine months in space, are finally on the cusp of returning to Earth.
One of NASA's stranded astronauts has addressed a request made by Donald Trump to Elon Musk, and went on to reveal his own thoughts on the political matter. Sunita Williams and Barry 'Butch' Wilmore have been stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) since June 2024 after their Boeing Starliner craft experienced technical issues.