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The change allowed for increased crew protection by reducing the heat load inside the MS-22 spacecraft for cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin in the event of an emergency return to Earth. The SpaceX Crew-6 space capsule is designed to bring back crew serving as an emergency evacuation option after Crew-5. [12]
Two other astronauts gave up their SpaceX seats to make room for the Boeing duo. The catch was that Wilmore and Williams would have to serve the same six-month shift as the rest of Crew-9.
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been stuck in space for months longer than expected, and will not return to Earth until at least March 2025 at the earliest, NASA indicated.
The Boeing Starliner spacecraft is now scheduled to undock from the International Space Station and return to Earth on June 22, NASA said on Friday, giving more time to finalize planning for the ...
Its astronauts will return to Earth on a SpaceX spacecraft early next year. By that point, the pair will have been in space for nearly 250 days. ((Boeing via AP))
Astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley were selected by NASA as the Demo-2 mission crew on 3 August 2018. [11] Their mission validated crewed spaceflight operations using SpaceX hardware, including the Dragon spacecraft, the Falcon 9 rocket. [12] SpaceX scrubbed Demo-2's first launch attempt because of weather conditions.
But that did not mean the astronauts would get the first flight back to Earth. A SpaceX Crew Dragon, on a mission dubbed Crew-8, left the International Space Station on Wednesday, but Williams and ...
Four astronauts have returned to Earth with Elon Musk's SpaceX after issues with Boeing's Starliner delayed their mission. SpaceX Crew-8 splashed down off the coast of Pensacola, Florida at 3:29 a ...