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NASA prepares for Boeing Starliner's uncrewed return to Earth
UPI ^ | September 05, 2024 | Mark Moran

Posted on 09/06/2024 9:30:33 AM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 09/06/2024 9:30:33 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

What time? I need to find my old Skylab-Is-Falling party hardhat.


2 posted on 09/06/2024 9:36:18 AM PDT by Stingray51 ( )
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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?


3 posted on 09/06/2024 9:38:09 AM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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Take it to the nearest IHOP.

Because it will be flat as a pancake............


4 posted on 09/06/2024 9:39:55 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: Stingray51

I believe per nasa website it’s 6:00edt


5 posted on 09/06/2024 9:40:01 AM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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Let us see if they can successfully undock without damaging anything on the space station.

The article blew by that issue.


6 posted on 09/06/2024 9:40:40 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: silent majority rising

Safely to the ground or another flight? Both are strong possibilities


7 posted on 09/06/2024 9:40:43 AM PDT by 3RIVRS
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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?


8 posted on 09/06/2024 9:42:17 AM PDT by desertsolitaire ( )
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My bad unlocking is at 5:45 edt reentry is about 5 hrs later


9 posted on 09/06/2024 9:42:25 AM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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Good luck.


10 posted on 09/06/2024 9:43:32 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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I predict it will crash.


11 posted on 09/06/2024 9:44:54 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (‘Never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals’)
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Get woke.......we will see how this works out.


12 posted on 09/06/2024 9:45:02 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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“lost propulsion power”

Then it would start spinning wildly.

Does that answer your question?

Space is a zero defect environment.

DEI can mean dead.


13 posted on 09/06/2024 9:45:53 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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NASA prepares for Boeing Starliner's uncrewed return to Earth

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?

14 posted on 09/06/2024 9:47:12 AM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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To: desertsolitaire

Supposedly American and Russian ships could dock with each other for that very reason. I don’t know about now......


15 posted on 09/06/2024 9:55:30 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Should be a good episode of Starliner: DEI.


16 posted on 09/06/2024 9:58:20 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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...refurbishment ahead of its next flight.

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...

17 posted on 09/06/2024 9:59:49 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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Early on in the joint US-Soviet space missions, the astronauts and cosmonauts demanded common docking hardware.


18 posted on 09/06/2024 10:00:11 AM PDT by omega4412
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To: Red Badger

If it crashes I believe Boeing will too.


19 posted on 09/06/2024 10:06:44 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Red Badger

Unscrewed and uncrewed.


20 posted on 09/06/2024 10:14:46 AM PDT by Fido969
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