Stuck NASA astronauts 'Butch and Suni' to meet with Boeing over Starliner problems
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who returned to Earth in a SpaceX capsule nine months after their faulty Boeing Starliner craft upended what was to be a week-long stay on the International Space Station, said they planned visit Boeing on Wednesday, April 2, to discuss the issues with the spacecraft.
"There's responsibility throughout all the programs," Wilmore told a news conference in Houston on Monday, March 3. "And certainly, you can start with me. Responsibility with Boeing, yes. Responsibility with NASA, yes. All the way up and down the chain. We all are responsible. We all own this."
The protracted space mission was fraught with uncertainty and technical troubles, turning a rare instance of NASA's contingency planning — and the latest failures of Starliner — into a global and political spectacle, which captured the attention of US President Donald Trump.
Upon taking office in January called for a quicker return of Wilmore and Williams and alleged, without evidence, that former President Joe Biden "abandoned" them on the ISS for political reasons.
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