Space

Problems with the Boeing capsule forced them to extend their stay, but they remained confident in the craft. ‘We’re going to make it work,’ said Butch Wilmore.

‘If I have to, I’ll pay it out of my own pocket,’ the president told members of the media in the Oval Office.

‘That whole Boeing team, like our whole Commercial Crew Program team, is resilient,’ said Steve Stich, the manager of NASA’s commercial crew program.

All 10 payloads achieved 100 percent of their mission objectives during those two weeks, while also observing a solar eclipse and lunar sunset.

This was the final splashdown of a SpaceX crew dragon off the coast of Florida. Future ones will be conducted off the coast of southern California.

‘It was a wonderful day. Great to see our friends arrive,’ Williams told Mission Control.

‘We launched [them] with Starliner. We’re bringing them home on a Dragon. That’s the only difference to me,’ said NASA’s commercial crew program manager.

After finding the company’s proposal will have no adverse effect on the human environment, the agency slates a public review.

They are scheduled to dock with the orbiting laboratory around 11:30 p.m. on March 15.

Sen. Ashley Moody said the move would ‘bring stakeholders together.’ But it appears NASA won’t be packing its bags anytime soon.

The decision came down after ground crews worked for nearly three hours to mend hydraulic issues with one of the clamps holding the rocket in place.

Four small satellites will also study how the Sun’s outer atmosphere becomes the solar wind.