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Astronauts stuck in space at least another week as Boeing and NASA troubleshoot Starliner spacecraft issues
Yahoo! ^ | June 19, 2024 | Katie Hawkinson

Posted on 06/20/2024 6:01:58 AM PDT by Red Badger

Two astronauts will be stuck on the International Space Station for at least another week as experts at NASA and Boeing struggle to fix their spacecraft.

Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore arrived on the ISS on June 6 after a successful Boeing Starliner launch. Expected to only stay a week, the two will not be arriving on Earth before June 26, NASA and Boeing officials said in a Tuesday press conference.

The Boeing Starliner is facing several mechanical problems. En route to the station, the crew reported problems with five thrusters and four helium leaks. A fifth helium leak has since cropped up. Crews are working to make sure its safe before the astronauts are put back on and return home.

This delay comes after NASA and Boeing crews announced June 22 as their return date.

“We want to give our teams a little bit more time to look at the data, do some analysis, and make sure we’re really ready to come home,” Steve Stich, NASA’s Commercial Crew Program manager, said on Tuesday.

Stich said they do not see a scenario “where Starliner is not going to be able to bring Butch and Suni home.”

Crews will attempt to land in the White Sands area of New Mexico next week. If the crew cannot make the June 26 landing, the next “prime opportunity” will be on July 2, .

Dana Weigel, manager of NASA’s International Space Station Program, said the crew is feeling positive.

“They love Starliner, they love being in the vehicle, they love being on ISS,” Weigel said on Tuesday. “I think, you know, if you ask Butch and Suni, they might want to stay for a long period of time.”

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Health/Medicine; Military/Veterans; Science
KEYWORDS: boeing; butchwilmore; iss; katiehawkinson; nasa; starliner; suniwilliams
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1 posted on 06/20/2024 6:01:58 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Send a shutt!e up to retrie.........oh. Never mind.


2 posted on 06/20/2024 6:03:03 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: Red Badger

If it’s Boeing...I’m not going.


3 posted on 06/20/2024 6:03:21 AM PDT by Politically Correct (A member of the rabble in good standing)
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To: Politically Correct

If it’s Boeing.. YOU CAN’T GO!..................


4 posted on 06/20/2024 6:04:11 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Cue up: ground control to major tom.


5 posted on 06/20/2024 6:04:48 AM PDT by Mouton (A 150MT hit may not solve our problems now but is a good start. )
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To: Red Badger
they do not see a scenario “where Starliner is not going to be able to bring Butch and Suni home.”

Bring them home - is that the same as bring them home alive?

And one of them is named Suni - named after a muslim cult? Who was in charge in bringing more ducttape?

6 posted on 06/20/2024 6:06:11 AM PDT by Bernard (“God's cruelest punishment is to let you reap what you sow.”)
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To: Bernard

Gorilla Tape, the new ‘duct tape’.................


7 posted on 06/20/2024 6:07:12 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Can you imagine what it must be like to be one of those astronauts scheduled to jump on that thing and Drop back to earth?

I am totally done with NASA, and have been for sometime. It is clear that they are a DIE organization, and for any organization involved in space light, that is absolutely no place to be.


8 posted on 06/20/2024 6:09:23 AM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: Red Badger
I'm sure the Russians will let the American astronauts use one of the Soyuz craft.

/s


9 posted on 06/20/2024 6:10:37 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Red Badger; null and void; dfwgator

Ironman, this is Keith!


10 posted on 06/20/2024 6:11:13 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Red Badger
If it has problems going up, imagine the problems it could have coming down.

Getting up there is the easy part, getting back down in one piece is a bit more of a challenge.

11 posted on 06/20/2024 6:11:47 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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12 posted on 06/20/2024 6:14:17 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: Red Badger

Good gosh....first they couldn’t get the thing OFF the ground....now they can’t get it back ON the ground. SMH

Somebody needs to call ELON


13 posted on 06/20/2024 6:15:56 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Red Badger
CEO of Boeing says it's not his fault. It's his workers' fault.

Well, somebody fired and or drove out the old timers who knew what they were doing, and replaced them with a diversity of woketards.

14 posted on 06/20/2024 6:16:03 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to kill us. Plan to avoid this.)
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To: Red Badger

If we only had those brilliant black woman from that Disney Movie and our 1960’s technology, we would be to mars by now without event!


15 posted on 06/20/2024 6:16:26 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: rlmorel
NASA has been an agency seeking a mission since 1986

NASA now is dedicated to global warming and climate change, manned space is a nuisance side line biz these days and it shows.

16 posted on 06/20/2024 6:16:52 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: Bernard

> And one of them is named Suni <

Out of curiosity I looked it up. She’s a Hindu. That didn’t surprise me. What surprised me is that she’s 58 years old. The other astronaut, Butch Wilmore, is 61.

I dunno. Maybe NASA is working under the principle of “with age comes wisdom”.


17 posted on 06/20/2024 6:17:01 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: SaveFerris
Heh. As a very small child (less than six) I told everyone that I wanted to be an astronaut.

Then one Sunday afternoon in January 1981 the big TV station in Greensboro aired Marooned.

Watching that movie thoroughly quashed THAT desire of mine!!!

18 posted on 06/20/2024 6:17:25 AM PDT by Ciaphas Cain ("If they can do that to Trump then they can do that to YOU." -- Lazamataz)
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To: Red Badger

And the question on everyones mind:

Will the starliner be serving hors d’oeuvres?


19 posted on 06/20/2024 6:17:50 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Red Badger
They can fix the Starleaker with a can or two of Flex Seal TM.



20 posted on 06/20/2024 6:18:13 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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