{"id":231639,"date":"2026-02-19T13:13:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/one-of-the-astronauts-stuck-in-space-after-starliner-malfunction-to-be-on-cape-cod-feb-20"},"modified":"2026-02-19T13:13:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:13:47","slug":"one-of-the-astronauts-stuck-in-space-after-starliner-malfunction-to-be-on-cape-cod-feb-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/one-of-the-astronauts-stuck-in-space-after-starliner-malfunction-to-be-on-cape-cod-feb-20","title":{"rendered":"One of the astronauts stuck in space after Starliner malfunction to be on Cape Cod Feb. 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/one-of-the-astronauts-stuck-in-space-after-starliner-malfunction-to-be-on-cape-cod-feb-20.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She is an inspiration!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>NASA astronaut <a href=\"https:\/\/share.google\/story\/news\/2026\/01\/22\/ma-astronaut-sunita-williams-falmouth-nasa-retires-spacewalk-record\/88288331007\/\" class=\"\">Sunita \u201cSuni\u201d Williams<\/a>, a Needham native with <a href=\"https:\/\/share.google\/story\/news\/2024\/08\/21\/nasa-suni-williams-falmouth-road-race-space-astronaut-running-cape-cod-massachusetts-race\/74874898007\/\" class=\"\">Falmouth ties<\/a>, will speak about her experiences during a recent space mission at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 20 at the Marine Biological Laboratory\u2019s Falmouth Forum, according to a community announcement.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture, titled \u201cSo Much Space\u2026 So Much Time!,\u201d will take place in the Cornelia Clapp Auditorium in Lillie Laboratory, 7 MBL St., Woods Hole. It is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Williams and fellow astronaut Butch Wilmore <a href=\"https:\/\/share.google\/story\/news\/2025\/04\/02\/astronaut-cape-cod-suni-williams-new-england-visit-back-home\/82772807007\/\" class=\"\">remained aboard the International Space Station after thruster failures<\/a> on their spacecraft. They returned to Earth on an alternate vehicle. Williams will share videos and personal accounts to highlight the rapid commercialization of space and the challenges it presents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She is an inspiration! NASA astronaut Sunita \u201cSuni\u201d Williams, a Needham native with Falmouth ties, will speak about her experiences during a recent space mission at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 20 at the Marine Biological Laboratory\u2019s Falmouth Forum, according to a community announcement. The lecture, titled \u201cSo Much Space\u2026 So Much Time!,\u201d will take place in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}