NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who recently returned to Earth after getting stuck for more than nine months in space, said on Monday that they would be willing to board the Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft again for travelling to space in the future.
Speaking to the media for the first time since their return to Earth on March 19, after an extended 286-day stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS), NASA astronaut Wilmore said that they would go to space in a Boeing Starliner after rectifying the issues that the spacecraft encountered.
“Yes, because we’re going to rectify all the issues that we encountered. We’re going to fix them. We’re going to make it work. Boeing is completely committed. NASA is completely committed, and with that, I’d get on in a heartbeat,” Wilmore said about future endeavors on the Boeing Starliner, reported CBS News.
During Boeing Starliner’s first pilot mission, launched on June 5, 2024 for eight days with Wilmore, who is 62, and Williams, 59 aboard both of whom are former military test pilots, and the spacecraft experienced small helium leak in the ship’s propulsion pressurization system which engineers said won’t get worse.
