April 9, 2022: International Space Station Configuration. Six spaceships are parked at the space station including the SpaceX Dragons Endurance and Endeavour; the Northrop Grumman Cygnus space freighter; and Russia’s Soyuz MS-21 crew ship and the Progress 79 and 80 resupply ships. Credit: NASA...
Instead, the astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, will remain on the space station for several weeks longer as NASA and Boeing engineers continue to study misbehaving thrusters on the vehicle. But don’t call the astronauts stuck or stranded, officials said. And there’s no talk of...
Two astronauts are being cut from the next crew heading to the International Space Station to make room for two others that have been stuck there for weeks.Suni
NASA has stressed from the get-go that in an emergency at the space station — like a fire or decompression — Starliner could still be used by the pair as a lifeboat to leave. A former NASA executive contends the astronauts are “kind of stuck,” although certainly not stranded. They...
"The vehicle experienced multiple engines out during the flight test, lost altitude, and began to tumble. The flight termination system was commanded on both the booster and ship. As is standard procedure, the pad and surrounding area was cleared well in advance of the test, and we expect th...
unusable going forward, but the others were successfully test fired later. That "hot-fire" test gave engineers confidence the jets needed for post-undocking maneuvers, and to keep the Starliner steady during the critical de-orbit rocket firing, will work as needed to set th...
NASA on Friday cut two astronauts from the next crew to make room on the return trip for the two stuck at the International Space Station. August 30, 2024 3:42pm EDT SpaceX grounded by FAA after Falcon 9 topples, burns on landing barge ...
from its colossal booster, which hadcaught firefrom leaking fuel, and flipped as it fell in the air back toward Earth. The self-destruct systemwas commandedfor both the booster and ship after several of the engines didn’t fire, thoughaerodynamic pressureultimately caused the ship to break ...
Nasa turns to Musk’s SpaceX to bring stuck astronauts back to Earth US space agency will not use Boeing spacecraft that ferried crew to International Space Station August 20 2024 Rocket explodes at Britain’s new Shetland spaceport Test was carried out by German start-up that hopes to launc...
Nasa turns to Musk’s SpaceX to bring stuck astronauts back to Earth US space agency will not use Boeing spacecraft that ferried crew to International Space Station August 8 2024 Nasa Nasa may ask SpaceX to retrieve astronauts stuck at space station ...