When Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore set off in early June on the Boeing Starliner capsule to the Worldwide House Station (ISS), they thought they’d be away for every week. However two months on, after points with defective thrusters, it’s nonetheless not clear once they’ll have the ability to return.
There are few folks on earth who can say they’ve ever had their area mission delayed, however the former astronaut Mike Massimino is one in every of them.
“These had been wonderful days for me,” Mike tells Helen Pidd. “There’s nothing on the guidelines for us to do actually, so we had been simply looking the window and stress-free.”
“That was among the greatest days on the mission for me, a few of my greatest days of my life.”
The Guardian reporter Richard Luscombe additionally tells Helen what the delay means for Boeing, and what choices the astronauts have for his or her return.
{Photograph}: Chris O’Meara/AP
Assist The Guardian
The Guardian is editorially unbiased.
And we need to preserve our journalism open and accessible to all.
However we more and more want our readers to fund our work.
Supply hyperlink
