The crew of the spacecraft arrived at the ISS in June. The objective was to test the Starliner’s comprehensive capabilities, including launch, docking, and return systems. The mission was scheduled to last one week. Five of the capsule’s 28 thrusters failed to function before docking with the ISS. Boeing claimed that its technology could guarantee the safe return of the astronauts. However, NASA expressed doubts and concluded that the risk was too high. The agency entrusted the task to [SpaceX](https://www.wired.com/tag/spacex).
Pretty good view to watch the end of the world if you ask me.
alphagusta on
They aren’t “stranded starliner astronauts”.
Not to mention the two other people they are coming back with.
Edit: Astronauts that aren’t on Starliner and can leave on their Dragon at any time in an emergency are not “stranded”.
Stranded: left **without the means** to move from somewhere. – Oxford Dictionary.
Y’all really love to play into the sensationalism of mainstream media.
Rex-0- on
They’re on a different mission now, a mission that has a capsule docked at ISS.
This is just click bait at this point OP.
Also, wired.com? Really dude?
ChymickGaming on
They were meant to be there for a week. They will have been there for nine months — if their return isn’t postponed again.
littlewhitecatalex on
Wait they’re still up there? I thought they came back already. Or are these different stranded astronauts?
svarogteuse on
This is reaching Kerbal level of rebranding stranded crew members as colonists.
CVF4U on
They are lucky! I would love to be in their place…
capybarramundi on
It would be nice to have that kind of job security.
eulynn34 on
I wouldn’t be in any kind of hurry to get back to Earth
DarthRathikus on
How are they surviving? Do they account for extended food/oxygen supply for situations like this? And yes I refuse to click the article.
sirscrote on
Interesting does this have to do with the fact that UAP are flying around?
w4ndering_squirrel on
They’re not stranded. They could come back today if they needed to.
dogscatsnscience on
Without knowing how they feel about it personally, when you consider how highly experienced both of these naval aviators are, and the opportunities they will have now to undertake new missions:
They have decades of experience training for challenging things, and a huge support network to make their time up there productive and important.
This is the power of sending of some of the best, brightest and strongest individuals we have to the frontier.
Own_Set_7166 on
– why isnt spaceX falcon being sent there again ? Already went once and brought others back…. This is not good for NASA
Ohuigin on
Their overtime pay is going to be astronomical.
liquidmini on
Should have gone to Mars instead, they’d arrive by the time they’re suppose to return.
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NASA has again postponed the return to Earth of Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams, the [astronauts stranded on the International Space Station](https://www.wired.com/story/starliner-return-nasa-spacex-boeing-iss/) after [Boeing’s Starliner capsule malfunctioned](https://www.wired.com/story/nasa-boeing-starliner-return-home-spacex/) in the middle of this year.
The crew of the spacecraft arrived at the ISS in June. The objective was to test the Starliner’s comprehensive capabilities, including launch, docking, and return systems. The mission was scheduled to last one week. Five of the capsule’s 28 thrusters failed to function before docking with the ISS. Boeing claimed that its technology could guarantee the safe return of the astronauts. However, NASA expressed doubts and concluded that the risk was too high. The agency entrusted the task to [SpaceX](https://www.wired.com/tag/spacex).
Read more: [https://www.wired.com/story/boeing-starliner-astronauts-stranded-until-march-nasa/](https://www.wired.com/story/boeing-starliner-astronauts-stranded-until-march-nasa/)
Pretty good view to watch the end of the world if you ask me.
They aren’t “stranded starliner astronauts”.
Not to mention the two other people they are coming back with.
Edit: Astronauts that aren’t on Starliner and can leave on their Dragon at any time in an emergency are not “stranded”.
Stranded: left **without the means** to move from somewhere. – Oxford Dictionary.
Y’all really love to play into the sensationalism of mainstream media.
They’re on a different mission now, a mission that has a capsule docked at ISS.
This is just click bait at this point OP.
Also, wired.com? Really dude?
They were meant to be there for a week. They will have been there for nine months — if their return isn’t postponed again.
Wait they’re still up there? I thought they came back already. Or are these different stranded astronauts?
This is reaching Kerbal level of rebranding stranded crew members as colonists.
They are lucky! I would love to be in their place…
It would be nice to have that kind of job security.
I wouldn’t be in any kind of hurry to get back to Earth
How are they surviving? Do they account for extended food/oxygen supply for situations like this? And yes I refuse to click the article.
Interesting does this have to do with the fact that UAP are flying around?
They’re not stranded. They could come back today if they needed to.
Without knowing how they feel about it personally, when you consider how highly experienced both of these naval aviators are, and the opportunities they will have now to undertake new missions:
They have decades of experience training for challenging things, and a huge support network to make their time up there productive and important.
This is the power of sending of some of the best, brightest and strongest individuals we have to the frontier.
– why isnt spaceX falcon being sent there again ? Already went once and brought others back…. This is not good for NASA
Their overtime pay is going to be astronomical.
Should have gone to Mars instead, they’d arrive by the time they’re suppose to return.