Boeing Starliner Astronaut: ‘We Found Some Things That We Just Could Not Get Comfortable With’
14th September 2024
CNN.
The two NASA astronauts who piloted the first crewed test flight of Boeing’s Starliner capsule — and were left behind on the space station as the beleaguered spacecraft returned to Earth — took questions on Friday for the first time in weeks.
Butch Wilmore, a Tennessee native and former Navy test pilot, said during the conversation that he and crewmate Suni Williams were “very fortunate” to have the ability to stay on the International Space Station a few more months and come home using a back-up option: hitching a ride on a SpaceX-made Crew Dragon vehicle.
“There’s many cases in the past where there have not been other options,” Wilmore said.