HOUSTON: Two US astronauts who arrived at the International Space Station aboard Boeing's Starliner will have to stay six more months and return home with rival SpaceX, NASA said Saturday, in a fresh public relations blow to the crisis-hit aviation giant.
HOUSTON: Two US astronauts who arrived at the International Space Station aboard Boeing 's Starliner will have to stay six more months and return home with rival SpaceX, NASA said Saturday, in a fresh public relations blow to the crisis-hit aviation giant.
But a day later, as Starliner was approaching the space station, 'NASA and Boeing identified helium leaks and experienced issues with the spacecraft reaction control thrusters,' the space agency said.Amid intense efforts to diagnose the problem and fashion a possible fix, NASA had to put the astronauts' return on indefinite hold.The big concern was that Starliner might not have the propulsive power to wrest itself out of orbit and begin the descent toward Earth.
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