Washington: US area company NASA has made a giant announcement concerning the return of astronauts Barry Butch Gilmore and Sunita Williams. These two astronauts have been stranded on the Worldwide Area Station for greater than a month. Now NASA has set August 18 because the earliest sensible date for each astronauts to return to Earth from the ISS on the CST-100 Starliner. NASA Industrial Crew Program Supervisor Steve Stich advised a press convention on the Kennedy Area Heart in Florida that the Starliner and its crew wouldn’t return earlier than August 18. The window for the return flight will probably be prolonged to early September.
Date could also be prolonged to early September
Steve Stich stated, the window for the return flight of Barry Butch Gilmore and Sunita Williams will probably be prolonged to early September. He additionally stated that NASA’s deliberate schedule for crew flights to and from the Worldwide Area Station over the subsequent two months is to first “convey Butch and Suni residence on Starliner, then launch Crew 9 to the Worldwide Area Station after which convey Crew 8 residence.”
Sunita Williams flew on June 5
Starliner was launched on June 5 with a crew of two astronauts, however 5 of its 28 thrusters failed at totally different instances through the flight to the ISS and 5 helium leaks had been additionally recorded. The spacecraft’s return flight was initially scheduled for June 14 however has been repeatedly delayed since then whereas engineers on Earth have tried to resolve the issues with little success.