{"id":53843,"date":"2024-06-29T14:28:39","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T04:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=53843"},"modified":"2024-06-29T14:28:39","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T04:28:39","slug":"nasa-insists-boeing-starliner-crew-not-stranded-on-iss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=53843","title":{"rendered":"NASA insists Boeing Starliner crew &#8216;not stranded&#8217; on ISS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The first astronauts to fly Boeing&#8217;s troubled Starliner are definitely not &#8220;stranded&#8221; at the International Space Station, NASA insisted Friday despite having no clear timeframe for bringing them home.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an unusually defensive press call, officials attempted to put a positive spin on where things currently stood after weeks of negative headlines due to the spaceship&#8217;s delayed return.<\/p>\n<p>Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams blasted off on June 5 following years of delays and safety scares affecting Starliner, as well as two aborted launch attempts that came as astronauts were strapped in and ready to go.<\/p>\n<p>They docked the following day for what was meant to be roughly a week-long stay, but their return has been pushed back multiple times because of thruster malfunctions and helium leaks that came to light during the journey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Butch and Suni are not stranded in space,&#8221; declared Steve Stich, NASA&#8217;s commercial crew program manager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first astronauts to fly Boeing&#8217;s troubled Starliner are definitely not &#8220;stranded&#8221; at the International Space Station, NASA insisted Friday despite having no clear timeframe for bringing them home. In an unusually defensive press call, officials attempted to put a positive spin on where things currently stood after weeks of negative headlines due to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1851],"class_list":["post-53843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-nasa-insists-boeing-starliner-crew-not-stranded-on-iss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}