NASA will swap Dragon spacecraft on the ground to return Butch and Suni sooner
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SpaceX and NASA plan to return astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to Earth by March 19, earlier than initially scheduled. Their mission, originally set for 8-30 days, will have lasted 286 days. The early return is due to technical issues with a SpaceX vehicle and space station supply management. This decision was made last August, well before recent political comments by Donald Trump and Elon Musk about the astronauts being "abandoned" in space.
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