After the end of the space shuttle program, NASA turned to private companies to fill the gap. That isn't working out for the best.

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were barely known outside space circles when they strapped in for what was supposed to be a ...

The return to Earth of Boeing's Starliner astronauts stuck on the International Space Station inched closer as their ...

Massachusetts native Suni Williams and her crewmates splashed down aboard a SpaceX capsule on Tuesday, concluding a dramatic ...

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have returned to Earth after being stuck in space for more than nine months.

Their first flights were aboard NASA's space shuttle, followed by Russia's Soyuz ... he launched in it last September with a Russian and two empty seats reserved for Wilmore and Williams.

When Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft malfunctioned, Williams and Wilmore became long-term residents on the space station—and ...

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Wilmore first flew to space in 2009 on board the Space Shuttle Atlantis ... with two empty seats left for Wilmore and Williams’s return. The four could not return on the same capsule until ...

Steve Stich, NASA Commercial Crew Program manager, added that a lot of technical requirements were in play such as having the correct size spacesuits and seats ... Soyuz and space shuttle missions.