NASA Q&A with Boeing Starliner astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore garnered worldwide attention when issues with their Boeing Starliner vehicle cropped up during a June test flight to the International Space Station. “You’ve given me no reason not to trust you — either one of them,” Wilmore told Fox News when asked what he would say to Trump and Musk. But these folks get us ready to where those type of things happen.” NASA’s response to the ‘stuck’ narrative To be clear, NASA officials have consistently denied that Williams and Wilmore were ever “stranded.” “We always had a lifeboat, a way for them to come home,” said Steve Stich, who heads NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, under which SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft and Boeing’s Starliner vehicle operate, on March 18. He previously indicated SpaceX offered to commission a rescue mission to retrieve the astronauts — perhaps expediting their return by months — to someone within the Biden White House, but his proposal was denied for “political reasons.” Musk said he did not make the offer directly to NASA, though it’s unclear why.
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