Starliner Heads Home Without Astronauts. How They'll Be Rescued
Posted on AllSides September 7th, 2024
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It sounds like the pitch for a creepy science-fiction or horror movie: Two astronauts are stranded on a space station, and their spacecraft — with no crew — leaves them there and returns to Earth. That's the scenario that unfolded late Friday when Boeing's Starliner capsule left astronauts Sunita "Suni" Williams and Barry "Butch" Wilmore on the International Space Station and successfully landed at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico. But for the two seasoned astronauts stuck on the ISS, the situation isn't nearly as Hollywood-scary as it might...