NASA has announced that astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams will return to Earth next February aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft.
The announcement at a press conference today caps off months of speculation about the best plan to safely bring the astronauts home after malfunctions with their ride, Boeing’s Starliner capsule, postponed their departure from the International Space Station in June. Now, NASA has decided that Starliner will return home without Wilmore and Williams, who will stay on with the existing station crew and will return on SpaceX’s Crew-9 mission next year.
“Boeing has worked very hard with NASA to get the necessary data to make this decision,” NASA administrator Bill Nelson
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