Leaving People Behind

In order to increase the number of people in space, we cannot limit ourselves to the number of seats in spacecraft docked at the space station.

News from the International Space Station has recently been dominated by the story of two astronauts “stranded” there by a faulty spacecraft, with much discussion around if the term applies at all to the situation.

Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore launched in a Boeing Starliner for its first manned test flight intended to last 8 days, and now have spent…