SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule will deliver Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore again house from the Worldwide Area Station in February 2025, NASA mentioned on Saturday.
The company’s resolution marks the most recent setback for Boeing’s expensive and chronically delayed Starliner program, and it means extending the astronauts’ supposed eight-day journey to a complete of eight months.
Since Boeing first landed its $4.3 billion contract with NASA in 2014, the Starliner effort has gone greater than $1.5 billion over price range, following a botched first test flight and a slew of subsequent issues, together with defective parachutes, flammable protecting tape, rust accumulation, a problem involving an oxygen tank’s pressure regulation valve, and most lately, helium leaks that might compromise the automobile’s thrusters.
Nonetheless presently docked on the Worldwide Area Station, the Boeing Starliner will return to Earth uncrewed, in spite of Boeing’s stance that the Starliner is able to carrying Williams and Wilmore house safely.
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