Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams and her colleague Butch Wilmore have been stranded in space for two months. Space expert and former US military commander Rudy Ridolfi has described three horrifying possibilities. Rudy said that if they try to come back from this damaged spacecraft, they can die by evaporating due to the heat generated by friction.
In an interview with the Daily Mail, Ridolfi said that technically, the Boeing Starliner must be brought at a correct angle to safely return to Earth. As long as the capsule is at the right angle to enter the atmosphere, everything will be fine, but if it is not right, they will either burn up or go back into space. In this situation, they will have only 96 hours of oxygen supply with them, with which their survival will be very difficult.
The worst case scenario would be if the Starliner spacecraft bounces off into space because then it will vaporize in space. In both situations, their lives can be in danger. If they try to enter the atmosphere at a very high angle, then there will be a risk of the astronauts burning due to the friction between the air and the Starliner.
Earlier, Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore have been stranded in space for the last two months. Both these astronauts, who set out on a space mission of only 10 days aboard Boeing’s Starliner, are on the International Space Station due to a malfunction in their plane. NASA has planned to take the help of SpaceX’s Dragon capsule to get them back from there. But if they are brought back through this plan, they will be able to return to Earth by February or March 2025. Staying in the micro gravity of space for so many days is not safe for both the passengers. According to NASA reports, both the passengers are gradually facing many health problems. However, a statement has come from Boeing that work is going on on the Starliner and it is capable of bringing back the passengers in case of an emergency, but it does not want to get into any ifs and buts, so it is taking help from NASA.
A report was issued by NASA on Boeing, in which the Pentagon was appealed to impose a fine on Boeing because it had not given the correct information about the safety of Stellar. Currently, NASA has said that all efforts are being made to ensure the safety of the astronauts and SpaceX’s Dragon capsule will soon bring both of them to Earth.