NASA astronauts stuck on Boeing spacecraft face high stakes return from ‘incredibly important mission’: expert
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The "stranded" NASA astronauts on Boeing's Starliner capsule can spend 45 days docked to the International Space Station. More than 20 days have passed.
"This is an incredibly important mission … These delays seem like a bad thing, and can erode confidence … but you really want to make sure that there are no questions in the back of your mind when you're saying, ‘OK, yes, this is ready to launch humans.’" Chris Eberhart is a crime and US news reporter for Fox News Digital. Email tips to chris.eberhart@fox.com or on Twitter @ChrisEberhart48.
Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore's original stay was scheduled for a week, but a series of issues, including recent helium leaks and thruster problems, pushed their homecoming back multiple times.
"Operating in space, building these spacecraft, especially human-rated spacecraft for commercial companies, is a new endeavor that's still incredibly technical," Makena Young, a fellow with the Aerospace Security Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), told Fox News Digital. "It's a really hard operating environment when things go wrong ... It's not like you can go to take it to a mechanic when you're in space."
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