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This undated handout picture from Nasa released on July 2, 2024 shows NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams inside the vestibule between the forward port on the International Space Station’s Harmony module and Boeing's Starliner spacecraft.
A statement from NASA said the new approach would allow the space agency and Boeing to continue gathering data on Starliner when it flies home “while also not accepting more risk than necessary for its crew.” Amid intense efforts to diagnose the problem and try to craft a fix — including tests both on the ground and in flight — NASA had to put the astronauts’ return on indefinite hold.
“It was just too much risk with the crew,” said senior NASA official Steve Stich, with Norm Knight, another agency official adding that the astronauts “support the agency’s decision fully, and they’re ready to continue this mission on board ISS.” Before the SpaceX launch, an uncrewed Starliner will first have to head back earthward, ensuring SpaceX will have a docking port on the ISS.
With two such vehicles available, NASA reasoned, there would always be a backup in case one of the two experienced problems.
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