HOUSTON– More than nine months after launching on Starliner’s first crewed mission to theInternational Space Station, twoNASAastronauts are back onEarth. Monday, they talked about their stay in space and how they came home on a different spacecraft. NASA astronauts Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore ...
NASA officials were asked during news conferencesaround the astronauts’ March 18 returnto Earth about exactly how much credit should be given to Trump and Musk. For key context: The space agency mapped out Williams and Wilmore’s path home last summer — well before Musk or Trumpbegan talking...
HOUSTON –Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft may return to Earth without its astronauts asNASAmanagement is considering aSpaceXrescue mission for NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have been in orbit since June on what was supposed to be a weeklong test flight. NASA managers said t...
So, Starliner was able to make it to orbit, it but it didn't reach the correct orbit needed to reach its destination. Ground teams back on Earth tried to send signals up to command the spacecraft to do the orbit insertion after the automatic system didn't send the signal in time. ...
Meanwhile, the Starliner capsule will undock on its own and make an automated return to Earth. File: NASA's Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts (from top) Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams pose for a portrait inside the vestibule between the forward port on the International Space Station's Harmo...
NASA officials were asked during news conferences around the astronauts’ March 18 return to Earth about exactly how much credit should be given to Trump and Musk. For key context: The space agency mapped out Williams and Wilmore’s path home last summer — well befor...