NASA Boeing Starliner crew to remain stuck 2025 ||USA Discoveries

NASA leaders announced Saturday that the two Boeing Starliner astronauts Barry Butch Wilmore and Sunita Sunni Williams are officially looking at a lengthy 8mon stay aboard the International Space Station Barry Butch Wilmore and Sunita Sunni Williams will have to wait it out until February after a flight Readiness review determined that it's too risky for them to return to Earth on the Boeing spacecraft NASA leaders announced Saturday the decision means the Starliner will return empty-handed to Earth to free up a docking board for Space X crew 9 which is scheduled to reach the space station sep 24 for a six-month rotation Mission the Dragon capsule that crew 9 will take to orbit is also now Williams and wilmore's ride home the decision to keep Butch and Sunni aboard the International Space Station and bring the Boeing Starliner home on crude is result of a commitment to safety NASA's administrator Bill Nelson said during the news conference our core value is safety and it is our North Star and I'm grateful to NASA and to Boeing for their teams for all the incredible and detailed work to get to this decision during the news conference NASA's administrators said that safety is their main priority but the government agency plans to use this experience as an opportunity to learn I'll tell you that the NASA and Boeing team have made incredible technical progress in the model development that has gone on the Thruster testing understanding material properties within the valve and the complicated fluid physics that are happening inside NASA's associate administrator Jim free said we are a learning organization and I think we've demonstrated that here we'll learn from this effort so that our crews who are at the top of the pyramid on these missions and their families can continue to know we've done that and will always do our best the decision brings to an end the mystery surrounding the fate of Williams and Wilmore the veteran NASA astronauts who arrived June 6th at the orbital Outpost for what was supposed to only be a stay of little more than a week some of the troubles began even before Starliner finally managed to launch June 5th from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on its inaugural crude test flight Wilmore and Williams were only meant to be aboard the International Space Station for little more than a week before heading back to Earth but when they made it to the orbital Outpost a day after the launch Engineers discovered CED a slew of helium leaks and problems with the Craft's propulsion system at hampered Starliner return to Earth amid the scramble to figure out what to do about Starliner NASA previously made the call to postpone the launch of SpaceX crew 9 that mission had been slated to take off earlier in August in a routine flight to replace the crew 8 mission that's been at the International Space Station since March but because the four crew 9 members can't arrive on a SpaceX Dragon until the docking board occupied by Starliner becomes available that mission now won't launch any sooner than sep 24 NASA has said the delay gave the engineering and space flight Specialists from NASA and Boeing time to collect an analyze Starliner data in preparation for the flight Readiness review but it also means Starliner will still have to undock before the Dragon capsule arrives to make an autonomous return to Earth without its crew because Wilmore and Williams now find themselves in need of a ride back to the ground crew nine will include just two members instead of four NASA said