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Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, Cape Canaveral, Florida, April 25, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Joe Skipper

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Why Sunita Williams will remain in space till Feb 2025 despite SpaceX Dragon docking at ISS

What are the challenges? Are Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore alone inside the ISS? How long can they endure?

Crew member of the International Space Station (ISS), NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson smiles after landing in the Soyuz MS-25 space capsule in a remote area near Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan September 23, 2024. Photo: Roscosmos/Handout via REUTERS

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Russian Soyuz brings crew of three back from International Space Station

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams pose ahead of the launch of Boeing's Starliner-1 Crew Flight Test (CFT), in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US, April 25, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Joe Skipper/File Photo

Tech

Without astronauts, Boeing's Starliner returns to Earth

The launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base carrying the NROL-113 mission into orbit can be seen over the ocean and high in the night sky, in this time exposure taken from Encinitas, California, US September 5, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Mike Blake

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What is helium and why is it used in rockets?

The International Space Station (ISS) photographed by Expedition 56 crew members from a Soyuz spacecraft after undocking, October 4, 2018. Photo: NASA/Roscosmos/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo

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NASA narrows Crew-9 lineup to accommodate astronauts aboard ISS

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, Cape Canaveral, Florida, April 25, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Joe Skipper

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SpaceX to return Boeing's Starliner astronauts from space next year: NASA

USA

SpaceX, NASA to launch Crew-9 mission next month

In this photo provided by NASA, Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore, left, and Suni Williams pose for a portrait inside the vestibule between the forward port on the International Space Station's Harmony module and Boeing's Starliner spacecraft on June 13, 2024. Photo: NASA via AP

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Boeing's Starliner with Williams and Wilmore stuck in space for entire summer but they're 'enjoying free time'

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying two astronauts aboard Boeing's Starliner-1 Crew Flight Test (CFT), is launched on a mission to the International Space Station, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US June 5, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Joe Skipper/File Photo

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Is the Boeing Starliner ‘stuck’ in space? Return to earth delayed for 3rd time, sparking concerns

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying two astronauts aboard Boeing's Starliner-1 Crew Flight Test (CFT), is launched on a mission to the International Space Station, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US June 5, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Joe Skipper/File Photo

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NASA, Boeing push back Starliner's crewed return to June 18

The ISS may be on a precarious orbit just above politics and terrestrial strife, but it’s still up there, seeing 16 sunrises a day. Photo: Reuters

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New 'Superbug' detected on the International Space Station

Boeing's CST-100 Starliner capsule launches aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket on a second un-crewed test flight to the International Space Station, at Cape Canaveral, Florida, US May 19, 2022. Photo: REUTERS/Steve Nesius/File Photo

Science

Boeing's Starliner set for first crewed mission to ISS

NASA's SpaceX Crew-8 astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin launch to the International Space Station, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US, 3 March 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Joe Skipper

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SpaceX launches eighth long-duration crew for International Space Station orbit