Oct 26, 2024 01:27 PM IST Share Via Also read | Harris heckled at Houston rally; gate-crashing Trump supporters escorted out as chaos breaks out In this image made from a NASA livestream, the two astronauts stuck at the International Space Station since June 2024, Butch Wilmore, far left, and Suni Williams, far right, welcome two new residents who flew up on SpaceX, NASA's Nick Hague, front left in blue, and the Russian Space Agency's Alexander Gorbunov, front right in blue, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024. Behind them, from left in black, are NASA's Jeanette Epps, Russia's Alexander Grebenkin, NASA's Mike Barratt and NASA's Matthew Dominick. From left, wearing red, are Russia's Ivan Vagner, NASA's Don Pettit and Russia's Alexei Ovchinin. (AP) Having launched on March 4, the Crew-8 team faced repeated delays due to numerous reasons (including additional weather delays), facing a similar fate as (and also attributed to) the Boeing Starliner’s astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore. As per the latest development, the Crew-8 team members were stationed in space for three months longer than the Starliner duo. However, that timeline is expected to be crossed with Williams and Wilmore’s return aboard the Crew-9 SpaceX capsule scheduled not before February 2025. “(Crew-8 was) the longest duration in space for a US crewed vehicle at 235 days,” said Richard Jones, NASA’s deputy manager of the Commercial Crew Program, during a 5 am ET briefing. “Right now the crew is doing great. They are going to spend a little bit of time on the recovery vessel going through their medical checks,” he said at the time. “They’ll soon be on their way back to Houston after all of those are done.” In this NASA handout, Support teams work around the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft shortly after it landed with NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin aboard in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida on October 25, 2024.(Getty Images via AFP) Read breaking news, latest...