Sunita Williams will still be in space, returning to the Boeing Starliner on this date

Now there is a new update regarding the return of Sunita Williams from space. Boeing's Starliner spacecraft carrying Indian-American astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore is set to return next month without two passengers. NASA has announced the return. Till then he will have to remain in space.

The spacecraft has been in space for 12 weeks

Last week, NASA decided that it would be too risky to bring two astronauts, including Sunita Williams, safely back to Earth with Boeing's new capsule, so they will be brought back next year by a SpaceX spacecraft. The spacecraft has been in space for 12 weeks.

It will return from the International Space Station on September 6

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft is now set to return home alone from the International Space Station (ISS) on September 6. The spacecraft, carrying two astronauts, will separate from the orbiting lab around 6 a.m. and spend about six hours aloft before landing at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico around midnight.

Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams aboard the Starliner spacecraft, which visited the space station nearly three months ago on June 5, will currently remain in the orbiting laboratory. Last week on August 24, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that experts were concerned about gas leakage and problems with the Starliner capsule's propulsion system, so the space agency decided that the spacecraft's crew members were not safe enough. Complete their mission.

The flight will return completely alone with the controllers

"The uncrewed Starliner spacecraft will return completely alone with flight controllers at Starliner Mission Control in Houston and Boeing Mission Control Center in Florida," according to an update posted by NASA on Thursday.

How the Starliner aircraft performs on its return journey could be critical to the future of the Boeing program as a whole. If any sort of accident occurs to the spacecraft or NASA decides not to certify the spacecraft for human spaceflight, it will be another blow to Boeing's already tarnished reputation.

Repeating this test flight and redesigning the Starliner could cost the company millions of dollars. This would be in addition to the approximately $1.5 billion in losses that the company has already recorded on the Starliner program.

Now it is dangerous to bring both passengers

"All of us really wanted to complete a (Boeing Starliner) test flight with a crew, and I think the consensus was that we weren't able to do that," Ken Bowsox, associate administrator for NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate, said last week. "

Earlier last week, NASA decided that it might be too dangerous to bring two astronauts, including Sunita Williams, safely back to Earth with Boeing's new capsule, so they will be brought back by a SpaceX vehicle next year. Both passengers who went into space for a week as part of a test flight will now stay there for more than 8 months.