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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Send a shutt!e up to retrie.........oh. Never mind.
If it’s Boeing...I’m not going.
If it’s Boeing.. YOU CAN’T GO!..................
Cue up: ground control to major tom.
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?
Gorilla Tape, the new ‘duct tape’.................
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.
Ironman, this is Keith!
Getting up there is the easy part, getting back down in one piece is a bit more of a challenge.
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
Well, somebody fired and or drove out the old timers who knew what they were doing, and replaced them with a diversity of woketards.
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!
NASA now is dedicated to global warming and climate change, manned space is a nuisance side line biz these days and it shows.
> 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”.
Then one Sunday afternoon in January 1981 the big TV station in Greensboro aired Marooned.
Watching that movie thoroughly quashed THAT desire of mine!!!
And the question on everyones mind:
Will the starliner be serving hors d’oeuvres?
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