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Africa-Press – Eswatini. <\/strong><\/span>NASA on Tuesday said it may bring home Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams \u2014 the two astronauts who launched on Boeing Starliner\u2019s first crewed test flight and have remained on the space station months longer than expected \u2014 a couple weeks sooner than previously announced.<\/b><\/p>\n

The space agency said it was able to adjust the schedule because it opted to swap the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule it will use to fly its Crew-10 mission, which will now launch as soon as March 12 \u201cpending mission readiness.\u201d The new date could put Williams and Wilmore\u2019s scheduled return days ahead of schedule, as the space agency previously said it was targeting late March.<\/p>\n

The Crew-10 astronauts must arrive at the International Space Station before Williams and Wilmore, who are currently assigned to the Crew-9 mission, can complete their rotation on the orbiting laboratory and head back to Earth.<\/p>\n

The Crew-9 spacecraft, the Crew Dragon Freedom that\u2019s currently docked to the space station, can \u201creturn to Earth following a several day handover period with the newly arrived Crew-10 expedition crew,\u201d according to a statement from the US space agency.<\/p>\n

The announcement comes after SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and President Donald Trump sowed confusion about the Starliner astronauts\u2019 situation and attempted to claim credit for their return on a SpaceX capsule \u2014 a plan that had been in place for months.<\/p>\n

In posts on X, the social media platform Musk purchased in 2022, Musk said that Trump had directed him to bring Williams and Wilmore home \u201cas soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will do so,\u201d Musk\u2019s post read. \u201cTerrible that the Biden administration left them there so long.\u201d<\/p>\n

But NASA officials had in August announced plans to return Williams and Wilmore using a SpaceX vehicle \u2014 well before Musk or Trump mentioned the mission.<\/p>\n

NASA had expected to use a newly built Crew Dragon capsule to launch Crew-10 as soon as February, but in December the space agency revealed that mission teams needed additional \u201ctime to complete processing\u201d on the SpaceX capsule. That\u2019s why the return date of Williams and Wilmore\u2019s Crew-9 mission shifted from February to late March.<\/p>\n

With the latest plans NASA announced, however, the agency will instead make use of the Crew Dragon Endurance, which has previously flown three missions, most recently the Crew-7 mission that returned to Earth in March 2024 after a seven-month stay at the space station.<\/p>\n

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