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Astronaut Sunita Williams will celebrate her birthday tomorrow - but in a location she might not have expected just three months ago.
She's one half of a pair - Butch Wilmore is the other - shot into space aboard a Boeing Starliner for an eight day mission in June, that didn't go as planned.
Its thrusters malfunctioned upon docking with the International Space Station and the decision was made to leave the pair there until they could safely return.
That'll be until Boeing's rival Space X, can give them a ride home in a Dragon spacecraft in February next year.
So how damaging has this been for Boeing?
And what will Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams do with their extra time in space?
Someone who knows them - and what life is like aboard the space station for extended periods of time - is retired astronaut Michael Fossum, who's spent nearly 200 days in space himself.
