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Boeing Starliner astronauts will spend at least 240 days stuck in space — is that a new record?

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Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams will return to Earth from the International Space Station no earlier than February 2025 .

The return flight will ditch the troubled Boeing Starliner spacecraft that the crew rode to the ISS , in favor of a SpaceX vehicle.

In the best-case scenario of an early-February return, the Starliner crew's time in space will amount to no fewer than 240 consecutive days since the spacecraft's launch on June 5, 2024 .