NASA is exploring a contingency plan to bring home the two astronauts who have been at the International Space Station (ISS) for two months with no clear end in sight.
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00:00We don't have a major announcement today relative to a return date.
00:05We're making great progress, but we're just not quite ready to do that.
00:08The team is doing great. The joint Boeing and NASA team is doing well.
00:11They're working side-by-side with each other every day.
00:14We're methodically working through the data, and we'll come home when we're ready.
00:19This is a very complicated subject.
00:22The helium leaks, combined with the thrusters,
00:26combined with how the GNC flight control system will work during the deorbit burn.
00:30Getting everybody educated and understanding that
00:33ahead of the flight readiness review is the next step that we have on our side.
00:38Our mission was to get the crew to ISS. That's been completed.
00:41Our mission was to learn from a flight test.
00:44A lot of the learning that we've achieved so far, really,
00:48in my opinion, could only be achieved through the flight test.
00:51And now it's time to get on with returning the crew safely.
00:54And there's that step left to go.