{"id":72114,"date":"2024-06-24T15:39:11","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T05:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=72114"},"modified":"2024-06-24T15:39:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T05:39:18","slug":"boeing-starliner-strands-2-astronauts-on-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=72114","title":{"rendered":"Boeing Starliner Strands 2 Astronauts on International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NASA announced on Tuesday that astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore will be returning from the International Space Station no earlier than June 26. The pair launched on June 6 in the Boeing Starliner\u2019s first crewed flight and were slated to return after a week,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/06\/19\/science\/boeing-starliner-astronauts-return-scn\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to CNN.<\/a>\u00a0However, NASA has now delayed the return twice to buy time to understand better the issues the spacecraft experienced during its trip to the station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The June 6 launch was already a pushed-back ascent as NASA delayed the Starliner debut mission on May 6, just two hours before the launch. The agency ordered the delay to replace a pressure regulation valve on the Atlas V rocket\u2019s liquid oxygen tank. When the launch finally happened, the spacecraft suffered helium leaks and its thrusters unexpectedly stopped working on approach to the ISS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA announced on Tuesday that astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore will be returning from the International Space Station no earlier than June 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":72115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[398,9440,9267],"tags":[10450,10150,10449],"class_list":["post-72114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boeing","category-space-flight","category-space-news","tag-international-space-station","tag-nasa","tag-starliner"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72117,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72114\/revisions\/72117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}