The duo will be escorted back by astronauts who flew up on a rescue mission on SpaceX last September alongside two empty seats reserved for Wilmore and Williams on the return leg. NASA希望新旧乘组能有交接的时间,这样威...
NASA plans to bring the two Starliner astronauts back to Earth, along with their two space station crewmates, around March 19-20, shortening their long-extended stay in orbit by about two weeks, the agency announced Tuesday, Feb. 11. The slightly earlier-than-planned trip home was made ...
It's anyone's guess how far off a Mars mission might be, but NASA fully intends to land astronauts back on the moon within the next few years. As the Obama administration was winding down, NASA was tentatively planning a return to the moon toward the end of the decade. But the Trump...
NASA’s ‘stuck’ astronauts have finally left the space station Watch SpaceX launch a relief crew for ‘stuck’ Starliner astronauts In an appearance on NASA TV on Tuesday, Behnken described the re-entry — the most precarious part of the journey when the most stress is placed on the capsu...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASAs two stuck astronauts are just a few weeks away from finally returning to Earth after nine months in space.Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have to wait until their replacements arrive at the International Space Station next week before they can check out ...
ABC News’ Terry Moran speaks to space industry expert Eric Ingram about SpaceX’s launch of astronauts to the International Space Station to relieve two Americans whose trip was extended unexpectedly. 1 month ago SpaceX prepares for 2nd try in mission to get NASA astronauts on ISS back to Ea...
Wilmore said that while politics is part of life, it did not play into his and Williams' return, moved up a couple weeks thanks to a change in SpaceX capsules. President Donald Trump and SpaceX's Elon Musk said at the end of January that they wa...
NASA has hired Elon Musk’s SpaceX to develop Starship, the 21st-century answer to Apollo’s lunar lander. Starship will carry astronauts back and forth between Orion and the lunar surface, at least on the first trip in 2025. The plan is to station Starship and eventually other companies’...
and NASA is just waiting for the next group of astronauts—Crew-10—to arrive. The agency does this to make sure there’s adequate staffing at the station.In December, NASA announced that Crew-10’s arrival would be pushed back to allow SpaceX more time t...