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Science
Elizabeth Howell

Here's what Boeing Starliner astronauts are doing on the ISS as NASA works on their ride home

Two pictures of astronauts. one shows an astronaut with a headband in front of a computer. the second shows an astronaut floating next to a breathing tube.

Boeing Starliner's two NASA astronauts have been busy in space since arriving two months ago on the first-ever crewed Starliner mission.

While astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were expected to spend 10 days in space after their June 5 launch, it's now been 71 days — and they will not come home until mid-August at the earliest. That's because their spacecraft, Boeing's Starliner, underwent numerous technical issues and, perhaps most critically, problems with its thrusters and propulsion system while docking with the International Space Station on June 6. 

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