
NASA astronauts Suni Williams (left) and Butch Wilmore perform maintenance work on the ISS' Plant Water Management system.
Credit: NASA
To be clear, the NASA astronauts who launched into orbit aboard a Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft always had a ride home, so calling them “stranded” in space is a misnomer at best, if not a blatant disregard of fact. The CEO of SpaceX—NASA’s top commercial contractor—knows this as much as anyone...
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