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There is still no return date for Boeing's stranded Starliner astronauts, who have been stuck on the International Space Station since June after their spacecraft developed multiple issues, NASA has announced.
Yet NASA and Boeing say that even though ground tests have been completed, there is still no clear date for a flight home. Stitch said that NASA and Boeing may perform a test fire of the spacecraft"as early as next week." Following this review, Stitch added, an undock time will be set. Starliner was built as a part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, a partnership between the agency and private companies to take astronauts into low Earth orbit following the retirement of NASA's space shuttle program in 2011. SpaceX's Crew Dragon also came from this initiative and has tallied 13 crewed flights since it began operating in 2020.
NASA officials say the spacecraft is still safe, and that the return has been delayed this long so that scientists can collect as much data as possible on the malfunctioning RCS thrusters before they are jettisoned and burn up upon reentry. During their extended time aboard the ISS, Wilmore and Williams have performed a number of maintenance tasks and scientific projects. Once a week, they have returned to the Starliner capsule to work through the thruster issues with engineers at ground control.—China discovers strange glass beads on moon that may contain billions of tons of waterThe astronauts' stay has been largely safe but not entirely without incident.
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