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Boeing Starliner’s astronauts will now be in space until 2025. Here’s what they’ll do

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Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have been on the International Space Station for nearly three months .

NASA announced Saturday that they would remain there until early 2025 .

The astronauts will join SpaceX’s Crew-9 on a routine mission to replenish expedition staff.

The Crew Dragon spacecraft will instead launch on its outbound flight with only two people aboard.

Williams and Wilmore logged a combined total of 500 days in space before launching on the Starliner test flight.

NASA opted to take their luggage off the spacecraft to make room for a much-needed toilet pump to fix a malfunctioning toilet aboard the space station.

The two astronauts may have received a reprieve after a Northrop Grumman cargo resupply mission arrived at the ISS earlier this month .