The astronauts who traveled to the International Space Station aboard the Boeing Starliner are in good health, a NASA spokesperson has said, dismissing fake online reports of their death. The false narrative also includes false quotes attributed to Elon Musk.
"NASA and SpaceX are expeditiously working to safely return the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore as soon as practical, while also preparing for the launch of Crew-10 to complete a handover between expeditions," Cheryl Warner, NASA's news chief at the agency's headquarters, said in a statement to reporters.
Elon Musk took to X to state President Trump has asked for the quick return of two NASA astronauts who flew to space in June.
The president and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk are falsely blaming Biden for the situation, ignoring an existing plan that's been in place since last year.
In a post on X Tuesday, Musk blamed former president Biden and his administration for the delay in the astronauts' return.
A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is already scheduled to return the astronauts under a plan announced by NASA in August.
Boeing warned on Thursday that it expected a fourth-quarter loss of about $4 billion to close a year marred by a production quality crisis, stricter regulatory scrutiny, supply chain delays and a crippling strike by U.
Suni Williams steps outside the International Space Station for the first time since arriving in June on Boeing’s Starliner.
The vice president leading Boeing's Starliner spacecraft unit, Mark Nappi, has left the program and was replaced by the company's International Space Station program manager, John Mulholland, a Boeing spokesperson told Reuters on Thursday.
Posts by President Trump and Elon Musk roiled the space community, raising the prospect of an earlier-than-planned return for the Starliner crew.
Is an embattled Boeing performing above or below forecasts? It may be better to just go with your gut. The Virginia-based plane maker confirmed Tuesday that revenues shrank 31% in the fourth quarter of 2024 from a year earlier,