Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have been on an unexpectedly monthslong assignment after serving on Boeing’s Starliner crewed test flight, are conducting a spacewalk Thursday. The duo is venturing outside the International Space Station to remove degraded radio communications hardware.
The astronauts who traveled to the International Space Station aboard the Boeing Starliner are in good health, a NASA spokesperson has said, dismissing fake online reports of their death. The false narrative also includes false quotes attributed to Elon Musk.
Posts by President Trump and Elon Musk roiled the space community, raising the prospect of an earlier-than-planned return for the Starliner crew.
SpaceX founder Elon Musk said President Trump has asked the company to bring home the two NASA astronauts from Boeing’s Starliner mission on board the ISS “as soon as possible.”
Suni Williams steps outside the International Space Station for the first time since arriving in June on Boeing’s Starliner.
Is an embattled Boeing performing above or below forecasts? It may be better to just go with your gut. The Virginia-based plane maker confirmed Tuesday that revenues shrank 31% in the fourth quarter of 2024 from a year earlier,
NASA's two stuck astronauts are taking their first spacewalk together, exiting the International Space Station almost eight months after moving in.
"NASA and SpaceX are expeditiously working to safely return the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore as soon as practical, while also preparing for the launch of Crew-10 to complete a handover between expeditions," Cheryl Warner, NASA's news chief at the agency's headquarters, said in a statement to reporters.
Trump and Musk keep referring to Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore as 'stranded' and 'abandoned,' while there is already a plan in place to bring them home.
A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is already scheduled to return the astronauts under a plan announced by NASA in August.
NASA's two stranded astronauts conducted their first spacewalk together Thursday, stepping outside the International Space Station.