The Starliner crew is on the International Space Station for the long haul, according to NASA in a press conference Wednesday.

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is already on day 35 of what was originally supposed to be a nine-day mission, and it won’t leave the International Space Station (ISS) before the end of July, NASA commercial crew program manager Steve Stich and Boeing VP for commercial crew Mark Nappi told the press. Engineers and technicians on the ground are finishing tests — and analyzing a mountain of data — on the spacecraft’s thrusters and a helium leak, and it could be at least another two or three weeks before they’re ready to bring Starliner home for anything short of an (unlikely) emergency evacuation from ISS.

Inverse has all the details about why it’s taking so long to bring Starliner home, how the not-stranded-but-definitely-delayed crew is spending their time in orbit, and why the spacecraft has to leave ISS by mid-August.

When Marvel fans go to see Deadpool & Wolverine this summer, old-school X-Men fans will be delighted to see the return of Aaron Standford as the infamous mutant known as Pyro. But the X2 actor’s career is more varied and unique than his Marvel role suggests. In fact, Stanford has traveled the multiverse of various sci-fi franchises and has emerged as something of a journeyman throughout it all.

“I have wound up in a lot of genre,” Stanford tells Inverse. “And that certainly is something that I really tend to enjoy. Genre stuff, and science fiction, is a type of storytelling that I'm drawn to as an audience member. Maybe you end up gravitating toward the type of storytelling that you like to see.”

This is the paradox of Aaron Stanford. Did he get lucky landing the projects that he did, or was he destined to find this material? As Stanford gears up for a big summer, Inverse caught up with the celebrated actor to discuss his sci-fi journey thus far.