NASA astronauts stranded in space get more bad news as rescue mission is delayed

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NASA astronauts stranded in space get more bad news as rescue mission is delayed

Daily Mail
By LAUREN ACTON-TAYLOR
17 December 2024

NASA's two stuck astronauts have been given more bad news as their space mission is extended again and are now not expected back until spring.

Astronauts Butch Wilmore, 61, and Suni Williams, 58, left the International Space Station in June and expected to return home just eight days later.

However, their mission grew months longer after NASA decided to send the company's faulty Starliner capsule back empty in September.

NASA has now announced their mission has been pushed back again, as their relief team has been delayed another month, and their expected return would mark ten months since they left Earth.

The next crew of four was supposed to launch in February, followed by Wilmore and Williams' return home at the end of the month alongside two other astronauts.

However, the most recent announcement said that SpaceX needs more time to prepare the brand-new capsule for liftoff and it's now scheduled no earlier than late March.

NASA said that it considered using a different SpaceX capsule to fly up the replacement crew to keep the flights on schedule, but decided they would wait for the new capsule. 

Earlier this year, at their 60-day mark, many fans reacted to the horror of the situation on social media and described the delay as 'torture'.

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[rustynail]

There must be a way that the stranded can sue.?

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There must be a way that the stranded can sue.?

I would be losing my mind by now. Those people will never be the same. And the idea of using the Space Station as a tourist destination is no longer on the table. It will take many years to regain the confidence to send civilians into orbit.

I don't think suing is an issue being discussed yet. First, they have to worry about simply surviving. Reports are, the two are not doing very well. The female in particular has been ill and losing a lot of weight. They were never prepared for a year in space.

They were told it would be a three hour tour ... a three hour tour.

[berdie]

Although 58 and 61 certainly aren't old, it's probably old enough to have some lasting damage from this unscheduled "visit".

[Hoodat]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_M3uw29U1U

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Forgot all about this... holy crap, wtf? Scary shit... they're still there?

Boeing needs to pay for this.

[Gefn]

So depressing- so sad. I hope they can come home as soon as possible. 

[Smokin Joe]

When a lifelong friend and former member of SEAL Team 6 went through BUD/S, he said the first thing they did was go for a 5 mile run. At the end of the run, some guys were falling out, panting on the ground. When the last had come in, the instructor said, "That was fun, let's do it again!" A bunch of guys couldn't.

The lesson was to never decide it's over until it's over. It's something that stood me well (and I never was in the service) in the oil patch, because the idea that you had to only go 'so long' was always subject to change. One job ran 180 days straight. Others ran 60 or 70 or more. When the kids would ask when I would be home, they learned the answer would be "I love you, I miss you, too, but not until we are done."

I'm hoping the astronauts can adopt that attitude for their mental health, and keep up with whatever exercises and diet they need to to stay healthy.

[Wingnut]

There must be a way that the stranded can sue.?

As a country we need to back-off on our litigious ways.  It has gotten way out of hand.  Sometimes shit just happens.  Deal with it, and move on.

[Kamaji]

As a country we need to back-off on our litigious ways.  It has gotten way out of hand.  Sometimes shit just happens.  Deal with it, and move on.