What time? I need to find my old Skylab-Is-Falling party hardhat.
Once the Starliner lands and checks out with ground crews, the capsule will be transported to Boeing facilities at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for refurbishment ahead of its next flight.
Who wants to bet it never makes it?
Let us see if they can successfully undock without damaging anything on the space station.
The article blew by that issue.
I had a thought.
Say a future Starliner with crew aboard, lost propulsion power between Eath and somewhere else on space. Could another craft such as a Space X dragon dock with it in space to rescue the stranded crew?
Good luck.
I read that as
NASA prepares for Boeing Starliner's unscrewed return to Earth
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Perhaps it will make it back in one piece. Miracles do happen. What are the bookies saying?
Should be a good episode of Starliner: DEI.
I think I'd pass on that one, thanks. Probably a little paranoid there - it isn't as if Boeing would deliberately send a flight up with known technical issues...oh, wait...
If it crashes I believe Boeing will too.
Unscrewed and uncrewed.
Chutzpah!
Yes or No, will it blow?
“NASA on Thursday issued a timeline and a set of criteria for the Starliner’s departure from the ISS and return to Earth.”
Of which the article did not bother to report.
Live Video from the International Space Station (Official NASA Stream)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfEr5XCFNWM
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Undocking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cJVyHo61M0
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Re-entry and Landing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ0T-cZWh78
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Uncrewed return to Earth on Friday evening,
Kind of like comet watching have cameras ready.
It’s free burn 9 or 12 complete
https://www.boeing.com/space/starliner/launch/index.html#watch
It’s live right now
Starliner burns complete, outside the exclusion radius, ten min till it’s outside the 4km eclipse and in uncoordinated free flight back to earth. It’s on a free drift trajectory now to outside that 4km ellipsoid it basically cannot hit the ISS now. Once it’s outside the 4*2*2km area it’s free to deorbit burn and reentry is a given then....hope the thrusters can keep it’s shield forward or maybe they ballast loaded it so even on a pure ballistic entry it’s buttfirst heavy. No thrusters needed then.
My NASA TV channel no longer exists on Xfinity/Comcast. I looked it up and NASA is eliminating NASA TV and starting NASA+ on digital platforms. Roku has already converted its NASA TV to NASA+, so I already have it on my Roku lineup.
It was on July 29, 2024, that NASA made this announcement.
Did NASA time this announcement to take advantage of the hype of the troubled Boeing Starliner? Were they expecting people to tune in thinking they'd watch the Boeing Starliner blow up or disintegrate during reentry, so they announced their NASA+ digital channel just in time for it?
-PJ
Hooyah! Touchdown!
A sophisticated victory, for a sophisticated mission, sophisticatedly written up. Great victory, for More💲💲💲to go where no man should ever go or was meant to go.