{"id":73996,"date":"2024-06-27T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T08:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=73996"},"modified":"2024-06-27T14:35:39","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T04:35:39","slug":"two-nasa-astronauts-stranded-in-space-due-to-boeing-starliner-malfunction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=73996","title":{"rendered":"Two NASA astronauts stranded in space due to Boeing Starliner malfunction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two NASA astronauts are \u201cstranded\u201d in space after Boeing Starliner\u2019s return to Earth from the International Space Station was delayed a second time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NASA and Boeing decided to postpone the spacecraft\u2019s return until an unspecified date in July after it docked on the International Space Station on June 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They said the delay of the rescheduled June 26 return will allow more time for the review of the thruster malfunctions and helium leaks that caused the first delay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-165-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-73997\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-165-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-165-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-165-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-165.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams were initially scheduled for a nine-day stay, which was pushed back twice this month and now sits at an undetermined date. Picture: AFP<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The spaceship blasted off from Florida atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on June 5 following years of delays and safety scares, as well as two aborted launch attempts that came as astronauts were strapped in and ready to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNASA and Boeing leadership are adjusting the return to Earth of the Starliner Crew Flight Test spacecraft,\u201d NASA said in a blog post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe move off Wednesday, June 26, deconflicts Starliner\u2019s undocking and landing from a series of planned International Space Station spacewalks while allowing mission teams time to review propulsion system data.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NASA\u2019s Commercial Crew Program manager Steve Stich said Starliner was \u201cperforming well\u201d and dismissed suggestions astronauts Sunita \u201cSuni\u201d Williams and Barry \u201cButch\u201d Wilmore had become \u201cstranded\u201d saying they could return to Earth at any time, if necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On its first crewed flight, troubling technical glitches with Boeing\u2019s Starliner spacecraft have delayed it\u2019s return to Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":73998,"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":[398,9267],"tags":[10450,10449],"class_list":["post-73996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boeing","category-space-news","tag-international-space-station","tag-starliner"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73996","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=73996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73999,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73996\/revisions\/73999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}