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NASA astronauts can't wear Boeing Starliner spacesuits in SpaceX's Dragon. Here's why

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Boeing 's Starliner spacecraft is set to depart the International Space Station empty no earlier than tomorrow ( Sept. 6 ) It carried NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams up to the ISS and was expected to bring them home in spacesuits.

But the Starliner suits are not compatible with SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft.

SpaceX and Boeing are the two commercial vendors tasked with sending up American -launched astronauts to ISS .

Elizabeth is also a post-secondary instructor in communications and science at several institutions since 2015 ; her experience includes developing and teaching an astronomy course at Canada 's Algonquin College (with Indigenous content as well) to more than 1,000 students since 2020 . Elizabeth first got interested in space after watching the movie Apollo 13 in 1996 , and still wants to be an astronaut someday. Mastodon : https://qoto.org/@howellspace.