Boeing Starliner, Election Day
Boeing Starliner astronauts are unexpectedly spending Election Day in space. Here’s how they will cast votes
After NASA’s decision to keep them in space until 2025, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will now cast their votes more than 200 miles above their usual polling place.
Stranded Boeing Starliner astronauts will vote in the presidential election — all the way from space
I sent down my request for a ballot today, as a matter of fact, and they should get it to us in a couple of weeks,” Butch Wilmore said.
Astronauts would have been fine on Boeing's Starliner during landing, NASA says
With Boeing's Starliner spacecraft is safely back on Earth, NASA says Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams could have returned onboard.
'We just ran out of time': Boeing Starliner astronauts on why their spaceship returned to Earth without them
The decision to send Boeing's Starliner capsule home uncrewed from the ISS was driven in part by time constraints, according to NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore.
Stranded Boeing Starliner astronauts to phone home Friday about ongoing space plight
They’re temporary extraterrestrials about to phone home. The NASA astronauts already trapped in space for months are due to call Earth on Friday afternoon to discuss their ongoing plight
NASA astronauts left behind by Boeing Starliner share thoughts on saga
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams watched the spacecraft that took them to the International Space Station leave them behind last week as the Boeing Starliner made its return trip to Earth without a crew.
Boeing Starliner returns to Earth minus astronauts
Stuck-in-space astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams said Friday it’s been tough dealing with their Boeing ride leaving without them and the prospect of spending several extra months in orbit.
Harris County astronaut still plans to vote in 2024 election despite being stranded in space
Texas first passed a law in 1997 that allows astronauts to vote if they will be in space during early voting and on Election Day.
NASA astronauts to cast votes from space on election day
American astronauts from NASA will be on the International Space Station (ISS) on 5 November, Election Day, and will cast their votes via postal ballots, CNN reported. They will float 320 kilometres above the nearest polling station that day.
Elon Musk says the FAA should make Boeing pay for putting the Starliner astronauts at risk, not fine SpaceX 'for trivia'
Elon Musk said the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) should punish Boeing for its Starliner failures rather than impose ...
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Meet the SpaceX Crew-9 astronauts launching to the International Space Station Sept. 26
Crew-9, SpaceX's ninth operational commercial crew mission for NASA, will lift off Thursday, Sept. 26, at 2:05 p.m. EDT (1805 GMT). NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov ...
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Boeing's troubled Starliner capsule lands without astronauts in New Mexico
Boeing conducted numerous thruster tests in space and on the ground over the summer, and was convinced its spacecraft could ...
Stranded Astronauts Make First Public Comments Since Boeing Capsule Left Without Them
They remained behind after NASA determined the problem-plagued capsule posed too much risk for them to ride back in.
Watchdog group sues for NASA emails with ‘Space Czar’ Harris, Boeing as astronauts linger in orbit
A FOIA request was launched on behalf of a good government watchdog whose executive director suggested the decision to leave ...
SpaceX 'forcefully rejects' FAA conclusion it violated launch requirements
SpaceX said Thursday it "forcefully rejects" the Federal Aviation Administration's conclusion that Elon Musk's company failed ...