By now, the deeply concerning troubles afflicting the aerospace giant Boeing are a constant feature of the news cycle, with repeated accidents and malfunctions, and whistleblowers alerting of widespread problems endangering planes all over the planet.

The Boeing troubles find perhaps their most extreme manifestation up in the atmosphere, where the Starliner remains docked in the International Space Station undergoing tests for 3 weeks.

NASA remains assertive: the two veterans in the spaceship's first crewed mission astronauts are 'NOT STRANDED' in space.

People reported:

"Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have now been in space for three weeks after their journey, which began on June 5, was sidetracked when the Starliner experienced mechanical problems while the crew was testing it out in space.

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Despite concerns about the astronauts' well-being, NASA's commercial crew program manager Steve Stich said the two astronauts 'are not stranded in space'.[…] However, Stich said there is currently no targeted date for the astronauts' return."

Besides the Helium leaks, thruster problems are also plaguing the Starliner, and are the source of the delay.

Back here on Earth, crews scramble to fix the multiple issues.

"'We're not going to target a specific date until we get that testing completed', [Stitch] continued, later adding, 'I think we're on a good path'."

Boeing believes it 'can return with Starliner at any time'.

Astronauts Wilmore and Williams were meant to return to Earth 18 days ago. It is still unclear when the astronauts will return home.