NASA astronauts to be stranded in space for another six months as nightmare continues

Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams (Image: Getty) Two astronauts left stuck on the International Space Station due to troubles with their capsule will now spend the rest of the year in space before returning to Earth, NASA has said. Seasoned NASA pilots Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams expected to spend about a week in space when they took off on the Boeing Starliner for a test flight in June. However the pair have now been on the International Space Station since then after the capsule developed a fault.

NASA's top brass had been debating whether it was safe to send the pair back in the Starliner - which they were scheduled to land in the desert in New Mexico. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.createElement('script');el.

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