A roughly one-week trip to space to test out a private Boeing spacecraft has turned into a three-week excursion with no definite return date for two NASA astronauts, after their spacecraft experienced multiple technical issues.
Boeing’s Starliner transportation vessel, which docked at the International Space Station on June 6, has repeatedly postponed its return to Earth, in order to allow technicians to fix and analyze thrusters and helium systems that have unexpectedly shut down or leaked during use, a spokesperson for Boeing confirmed to HuffPost Wednesday.
The spacecraft, which last planned to return on Wednesday, remains cleared for return to Earth in case of an emergency and has “never been ‘stuck’ or ‘stranded’ on the ISS,” as some news outlets have reported, the spokesperson added.
Source: www.huffpost.com
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