Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, the two NASA astronauts who were the first to fly aboard Boeing's Starliner in early June spoke Wednesday morning from the International Space Station (ISS) as their brief trip into orbit has stretched into a month-long stay.
Engineers are scrambling to fix issues with the Boeing Starliner capsule, plagued with technical difficulties. The astronauts are stranded, but safe, on the ISS.
"We've been through a lot of simulations for this spacecraft to go through all sorts of iterations of failures and I think where we are right now and what we know right now and how the spacecraft flew as it was coming in to do the docking... I feel confident if we had to, if there was a problem with the International Space Station we can get in our spacecraft and we can undock, talk to our team and figure out the best way to come home," Williams said adding "I have a real good feeling in my heart that this spacecraft will bring us home no problem."
NASA and Boeing continue to evaluate Starliner’s propulsion system performance and five small helium leaks in the spacecraft’s service module.
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