{"id":45745,"date":"2025-02-14T13:34:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T13:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=45745"},"modified":"2025-02-14T13:34:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T13:34:58","slug":"after-the-8-day-mission-was-extended-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=45745","title":{"rendered":"After The 8-Day Mission Was Extended To>>>>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-491-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45747\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-491-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-491-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-491-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-491.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>They have been stuck there for a long time for two reasons, although they are mostly related to the same issue: spacecraft technical breakdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their intended return mission has been postponed due to problems with the SpaceX Crew-10 C213 Dragon capsule that would serve the required changeover protocol, in addition to the technical concerns that first left them stranded in space with their Boeing Starliner aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>According to one retired astronaut, you may be surprised to learn the precise amount that the two NASA astronauts get paid for being stranded on the ISS.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams\u2019 predicament is widely known; their eight-day journey to the ISS has now expanded to a 251-day stay, with no immediate plans to return<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-490-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-490-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-490-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-490-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-490.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Since no one has been available to transfer places, Williams and Wilmore have been effectively left&nbsp;<strong>\u201cstranded.\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;NASA requires that any astronaut returning from the ISS provide a simultaneous changeover with an incoming expedition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although that isn\u2019t necessarily the case, at least according to astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell in an interview with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonian.com\/2025\/02\/05\/nasa-stranded-astronauts-international-space-station\/\">Washingtonian<\/a>. McDowell outlines that&nbsp;<strong>\u201cthe party line at NASA is that the astronauts are not stranded,\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;insisting that&nbsp;<strong>\u201cit\u2019s way overblown.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cThey\u2019re fine,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0McDowell explains.\u00a0<strong>\u201cThey just got to do an extra spacewalk, which they love. They\u2019ll come home on the next ride.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=45729\">also read&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They have been stuck there for a long time for two reasons, although they are mostly related to the same issue: spacecraft technical breakdown. 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