NASA has decided it’s too risky to bring two astronauts back to Earth in Boeing’s troubled new capsule. They’ll have to wait until February for a ride home with SpaceX.
Surviving the first and perhaps only crewed Starliner flight, getting a full ISS rotation and a flight home on Dragon feels like a bit of justice for crew who put their careers on hold for Boeing. The Starliner assignments got the short straw and hard to imagine other astronauts not being sympathetic.
Suni is now up to the 33rd most time spent in space and might climb up to 12th by the time this is all said and done.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight_records#Most_time_in_space
It really sticks for the astronauts who will get kicked off of Crew 9, though.
It does, but I expect there is decent camaraderie among astronauts and they know who caused this.
Surviving the first and perhaps only crewed Starliner flight, getting a full ISS rotation and a flight home on Dragon feels like a bit of justice for crew who put their careers on hold for Boeing. The Starliner assignments got the short straw and hard to imagine other astronauts not being sympathetic.