A UnitedStates astronaut stuck on the International Space Station stated Friday he thought Boeing’s Starliner might have brought him home, if more time hadactually been readilyavailable to work through the beleaguered spacecraft’s concerns.
Last week, Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams viewed the Boeing Starliner they rode to the ISS 3 months previous head back to Earth without them.
“We might haveactually gotten to the point, I think, where we might have returned on Starliner, however we simply just ran out of time,” Wilmore stated Friday in a video press conference.
On June 5, Wilmore and Williams took off aboard the Starliner as part of the vessel’s veryfirst crewed objective, in what was initially implied to be 8 days in orbit.
After the Starliner ran into anumberof technical concerns, their stay is now anticipated to last for 8 months.
Last month, NASA chose Williams and Wilmore will return in February with the Crew-9 flight of Boeing’s aerospace competitor SpaceX.
Though Wilmore stated he was “absolutely not” let down by the choice to stay in area, he showed there were “disagreements” about