NASA says it's deciding whether the craft can safely bring two astronauts back to Earth. If not, they may have to wait until early 2025 to hitch a ride on a SpaceX Dragon.
In a new update shared on Wednesday,Boeing Space said: “Practiced, prepared, checked out, refilled, and inspected — the Starliner team is proceeding through checklists to be ready for return when a date is chosen.” Tuesday was spent going through procedures for the undocking process, with ...
The PCB, chaired by Commercial Crew program manager Steve Stich, did not come to a decision on whether to move forward with a flight readiness review, the next major agency step toward establishing a date for Starliner to return. The next PCB meeting is expected in the coming days, with NA...
As astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams near their return from the ISS,NASAand Boeing test the Starliner’s propulsion system using a new thruster at White Sands. A readiness review this month will set a new return date, with mission updates provided by NASA and Boeing leadership. ...
Stich said the capsule swap and slightly earlier launch date were not the result of any outside pressure. The decision "really was driven by a lot of other factors," Stich said. "We were looking at this before some of those statements were made by the President and Mr. Musk." Said ...
齐思用户 Invalid Date 写了一条评论 美国国家航空航天局可能会放弃波音Starliner的自动进近和对接测试。美国国家航空航天局局长吉姆·布里登斯廷表示,“星际客机”上的自动化故障不会危及机上宇航员的生命。宇航员接受训练来处理自动化故障。载人龙飞船和Starliner对未来的太空任务至关重要。国际空间站总是配备一辆总回报...
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were supposed to stay at the ISS for a little over a week. It's now been more than six months, and the end date has been pushed again
As of now, Wilmore and Williams are expected to return home in February 2025 on a SpaceX Crew Dragon alongside two members of the Crew-9 expedition. That's in contrast to the Starliner duo's original return date, which was slated for earlier this year and would have made their trip, wh...
CNN— Boeing and NASA announced Friday night that mission officials are again delaying the Boeing Starliner capsule’s return to Earth from the International Space Station. The announcement is only the latest in a string of recent delays. Officials have pushed back Starliner...
和下文Instead,they will remain at the International Space Station (ISS) for the rest of the year and will return in February aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.(相反,他们将在今年剩下的时间里留在国际空间站(ISS),并将于2月份乘坐SpaceX的"龙"飞船返回)可知,因推进器故障和氦气泄漏,宇航员不能...