Follow-up to this post
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are test pilots who flew up to the International Space Station last June on ULA's spacecraft Starliner, its first astronaut-crewed flight. But NASA would not permit Starliner to carry them back home at the end of their one-week mission because they judged the craft unsafe due to technical problems.
Instead of spending a week there, it's been about nine months. They say they want to go home, and that's coming soon.
SpaceX will launch Crew-10 to the ISS on March 12, and then Butch and Suni will get their ride back to Earth on SpaceX's Dragon craft, returning home next week (weather permitting) . . at last. Suni said in yesterday's news conference that her message to family is that she'll be home soon, so "Don't plan anything without me!"
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