[국제]NASA “Two astronauts will return to SpaceX next February”

NASA announced that two more astronauts will remain on the ISS and will return in February next year aboard the SpaceX ‘Crew Dragon’ spacecraft.

Before that, two people, including Butch Wilmore and Sunni Williams, embarked on the first manned test flight of the Boeing ‘Starliner’ spacecraft on June 5.

However, as a fault in the gas was discovered, the two astronauts could not return to Earth and were lost on the space station for more than two months.

NASA considered it too dangerous for them to return to Earth on a troubled spacecraft and decided to return them on a manned SpaceX spacecraft.

Accordingly, ‘Starliner’ is expected to attempt an unmanned and automated landing in the New Mexico desert in early September.

With NASA’s decision, the two astronauts are expected to stay on the ISS, which was planned to stay for a week, for more than eight months.

YTN Kim Ji-young (kjyoung@ytn.co.kr)

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