The Tortoise Podcast

Stuck in space

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Episode notes

In June 2024, Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore went into space. It was expected to last just over a week. Instead, by the time they'll return, it'll have been more than eight months.

This is the story of how two great American institutions - Boeing and NASA - failed them.

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