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The return of two astronauts who are 'stranded' on the ISS now sits at an undetermined date. Experts have revealed the reason why NASA and Boeing are delaying the return and other options that could be on the table. Starliner had a known helium leak when it launched on June 5 at 10:52am ET from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The capsule then encountered five failures of its 28 maneuvering thrusters, five leaks of helium gas meant to pressurize those thrusters and a slow-moving propellant valve that signaled unfixed past issues since launching. When Starliner arrived in the space station to dock on June 6, the five thruster failures prevented a close approach by the spacecraft until Boeing made a fix.