NASA Says Boeing Starliner Astronauts May Fly Home on SpaceX in 2025

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Imagine planning to be away for 8 days, and then ending up being away for 8 months.

If it's Boeing, you're not going (home)

At least they made it to the ISS Let's hope they manage to be able to fill in the roles of those not going to the ISS for the next rotation. I recall that they do a lot of training to be able to handle different operations on the ISS.

Several people in a thread about this yesterday were arguing that they were happy to be up there and definitely don't want to be on Earth with their families. I wonder if those people will still be claiming that in 2025?

I don't think they were necessarily claiming they were happy, just that we didn't know for sure what they were thinking. Some people were claiming that they were definitely unhappy... But I don't think you can know that without asking them.