Williams co-piloted the Boeing Starliner spacecraft with commander Butch Wilmore to the ISS in June. NASAdecidedin August after weeks of debate that it would not bring the astronauts back to Earth on the Starliner because of concerns about helium leaks and degraded thrusters. The capsulelandedin...
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the men and women building and testing it, and the NASA astronauts who will ultimately fly it. The Boeing team has taken all lessons from our first uncrewed orbital flight test to heart, and is making Starliner one of the safest new crewed spacecraft ever fielded....
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF — In June, two American astronauts launched on what was meant to be a brief test mission to the International Space Station. But now, with no clear return date in sight, the mission has taken an unexpected turn. Among those aboard the Boeing Starliner is Tenness...
MORE: Boeing Starliner's first astronaut-crewed flight launch called off due to stuck valve About 15 minutes after the launch, the rocket separated from the spacecraft, allowing Starliner to fly on its own. At 11:24 a.m. ET, Boeing Space said Starliner hadsuccessfully reached ...
That's because NASA pulled two other crewmembers -- its original commander Zena Cardman and three-time shuttle flier Stephanie Wilson -- from the flight to make room for two astronauts that have been stuck on the ISS since their Boeing Starliner capsule return to Earth without them on Sept....
“Being able to read the crew displays with a VR headset from a normal position in the capsule was mandatory. Without that, we were really stuck – until we found a headset that worked.” CONNIE MILLER – Software Engineer, BOEING
Ultimately, the space agency announced 10 days later that it had decided tobring the vehicle home without its crew. That left Starliner's two astronauts, Williams and Wilmore, stuck on the orbital outpost until they could hitch a ride home on Crew-9. ...
Space Stuck Starliner is causing NASA to delay other ISS missions NASA has announced that it will delay the targeted launch date of SpaceX’s Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) while it continues to work on resolving the situation with the troubled Starliner spacecraft. ...
During the Apollo lunar missions in the late 1960s and 1970s, the clingy particles were easily transported via spacesuits into the lunar lander following moonwalks. The amount of dust inside the vehicle was so great some astronauts reported they could smell it. ...