Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who embarked on a mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on June 5, are now stranded due to issues with Boeing’s Starliner capsule. Initially planned as an eight-day mission, they remain on the ISS two months later and may not return until 2025. Starliner Troubles and NASA’s ResponseThe mission marked the third and final test of Boeing’s new Starliner capsule and its first crewed launch. At first, the launch proceeded smoothly, but problems arose before docking with the ISS. “We lost an RCS jet, then we lost another one,” Wilmore said last …
