Trapped astronauts share horrifying new secret from their near-deadly trip to space aboard Boeing St

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Trapped astronauts share horrifying new secret from their near-deadly trip to space aboard Boeing Starliner

Daily Mail
By WILL POTTER
3 April 2025



The astronauts who were left stranded on board the International Space Station revealed they were almost lost in space on the day their Boeing Starliner ship malfunctioned.

Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams were left on the ISS for 286 days after their craft malfunctioned on what was originally intended to be an eight-day mission last June.

In their first media rounds since landing back on earth last month, the astronauts revealed that their capsule was plagued with issues from the very beginning, including a near-catastrophe when they first approached the ISS.

They recalled that after Wilmore took manual control of the ship, they lost four thrusters, and with that the ability to steer the vehicle safely.

Flight regulations dictate that even though they were a stone's throw away from the ISS, they should return to earth, but Wilmore said he realized he may have completely lost control of the ship.

'I don't know that we can come back to Earth at that point,' he told Arstechnica. 'I don't know if we can. And matter of fact, I'm thinking we probably can't.'

Faced with the ominous situation, Wilmore said he had to decide if it was riskier to attempt to fly back to earth or dock in the ISS, and Williams said the two of them were having 'a lot of unsaid communication' inside the capsule.

'We don't know exactly what is happening, why the thrusters are falling off, and what the solution would be,' Williams added.

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Was almost a real life "Lost in Space" situation.

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 'the thrusters are falling off,'  Was there a clunk and they could see the thruster spinning off into space?