An eight-day mission to the International Space Station ended 286 days later in March 2025, when NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore finally returned aboard a SpaceX capsule — abandoning the Boeing Starliner they had arrived in after it developed thruster problems too serious to fly them home
· space daily editorial team
Source Summary
When Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore packed for their trip to the International Space Station in early June 2024, they packed for approximately a week. The mission profile was eight to ten days. The clothes they brought, the personal items they brought, the level of mental preparation they brought were all calibrated to a trip [...] The post An eight-day mission to the International Space Station ended 286 days later in March 2025, when NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore finally returned aboard a SpaceX capsule — abandoning the Boeing Starliner they had arrived in after it developed thruster problems too serious to fly them home appeared first on Space Daily .
Advertisement