/ 26 August 2024

SpaceX to the rescue

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No doubt you’re all over the NASA astronauts – Barry ‘Butch’ Wilmore and Sunita ‘Suni’ Williams – being stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) after their Boeing Starliner spacecraft ran into problems in June because it was the topic of last week’s Squiz Shortcut. Right? Well, yesterday, NASA confirmed that Elon Musk’s commercial space company/Boeing rival SpaceX will bring them home – but they won’t board the Crew Dragon spacecraft anytime soon…  A planned SpaceX mission will be reconfigured to take 2 astronauts up, rather than the 4 planned, to save space for Wilmore and Williams on the way back to Earth in February. That’s a lot longer than their original 8-day mission, but reports say they’ll have plenty to keep them occupied… Earlier this year, Williams said she missed walking her dogs when she was in space. Here’s hoping her dog walker is a bit flexible… 

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