There's something like 8, 172,816,333 humans on planet Earth right now, and they're exactly two humans stuck in space. Now to be clear

NASA wouldn't say they're stuck. NASA would say they're on a test flight and

test flights are unpredictable.

A test flight by nature is neither safe nor routine.

But these two American astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunny Williams were set to go up to space on a Boeing spacecraft for an eight day trip.

And over the weekend, we just found out they're probably not coming back until SpaceX gives them a ride in February.

A lot of this has called into question the future of Boeing and their ability to continue to

send NASA astronauts up into space.

What happened and what it's like to be stuck in space?

Coming on today explained.

Stephen Alexander is a physicist who ponders big ideas about the universe. Some days he feels stuck.

But when that happens he can fall back on his second gig, playing the saxophone.

On a jazz improvisation, you get to try out a new solo every time the form of the song repeats itself.

Maybe there are many, many universes and the universe as it replicates itself it gets to try out new

parameters like a jazz improvisation maybe. What jazz can teach us about the

Cosmos this week on the gray area with me, Sean Elling.

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My name is Lauren Grush and I am the space reporter at Bloomberg.

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