Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams may have to hitch a ride back down to Earth from the International Space Station on Elon Musk’s SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule in 2025, NASA announced Saturday.
The $1.5 billion Boeing Starliner spacecraft, which got Williams and Wilmore onto the ISS, had “helium leaks and experienced issues with the spacecraft reaction control thrusters on June 6,” as it docked on the ISS, according to NASA.
While Boeing insisted on Aug. 2 that their “confidence remains high... based on this abundance of valuable testing from Boeing and NASA,” NASA decided it was best not to accept “more risk than necessary.”
