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NASA: No return date yet for astronauts aboard ISS
FOX 4 ^ | July 25, 2024 | Catherine Stoddard

Posted on 07/25/2024 8:12:50 PM PDT by george76

Two NASA astronauts who were supposed to return from the International Space Station over a month ago are still orbiting Earth as engineers finish working on problems plaguing their Boeing Starliner capsule, officials said Thursday.

Test pilots Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were supposed to visit the orbiting lab for about a week and return in mid-June, but thruster failures and helium leaks on Boeing's capsule prompted NASA and Boeing to keep them up longer.

No return date yet..

NASA’s commercial crew program manager Steve Stich said mission managers were not ready to announce a return date.

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Starliner launched on June 5, the third attempt in just under a month to get the spacecraft safely into the atmosphere. It experienced one helium leak before blasting off and two more leaks before docking with the ISS, NASA previously said.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: boeing; butchwilmore; corrupticrats; demagogicparty; faagroundedspacex; flyinglemon; iss; makelemonade; nasa; spacestation; starjunker; starliner; stranded; suniwilliams
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1 posted on 07/25/2024 8:12:50 PM PDT by george76
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Horrific.

Prayers up for these astronauts.


2 posted on 07/25/2024 8:15:40 PM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters was K as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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To: george76

Last I saw there was talk of doing a hot fire test of the thrusters, with it docked to the station...


3 posted on 07/25/2024 8:17:04 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Jane Long

I thought Elon Musk was preparing and sending a rescue ship?


4 posted on 07/25/2024 8:17:10 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: george76

so far it looks like if it’s Boeing ya ain’t going


5 posted on 07/25/2024 8:17:21 PM PDT by xp38
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To: george76

I’m sure they are enjoying their vacation. Ultimately I won’t be surprised if they don’t catch a ride back with Space-X.


6 posted on 07/25/2024 8:17:51 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Biden's Given His Farewell Address, So When Is He Leaving?)
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To: george76

Time to dust off this old flick:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNbY5n1zh-s

Marooned.


7 posted on 07/25/2024 8:19:37 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” -Matthew 5:9)
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Boeing’s Starliner program has been jinxed from the start.

It’s highly unfortunate and embarrassing to Boeing. They’re still trying to get out from under the shadow of the 737 Max debacle.


8 posted on 07/25/2024 8:21:46 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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“Vaccines”, electric cars, driverless cars, space capsules, defunding the police, no-bail and reduced-bail… More and more things are being tested with human guinea pigs years ahead of when they should be.


9 posted on 07/25/2024 8:25:02 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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Definitely not stranded or marooned.


10 posted on 07/25/2024 8:25:20 PM PDT by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: george76

Gonna run out of vodka soon.


11 posted on 07/25/2024 8:26:07 PM PDT by know.your.why
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For here am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do

12 posted on 07/25/2024 8:26:50 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: BradyLS
This isn't just about testing things on human guinea pigs - Boeing knew they had problems with their Starleaker before they launched and sent them up anyway. Boeing's first attempt in 2019 failed due to software and equipment failures.

This wasn't about a test; it was about incompetence, politics, and money.

13 posted on 07/25/2024 8:33:58 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: george76

Apollo 13 was only 6 or 7 days.


14 posted on 07/25/2024 8:36:38 PM PDT by gunnut
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Good thing NASA uses Environmentally Friendly materials in it’s spacecraft and the the staff are all DEI compliant.


15 posted on 07/25/2024 8:37:53 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: george76
Where is a superhero when you need him?


16 posted on 07/25/2024 8:50:20 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: T.B. Yoits
The Starleaker astronuts are not "stranded"


17 posted on 07/25/2024 8:55:22 PM PDT by Theophilus (covfefe)
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To: george76

This is awful. It’s not yet over, but doesn’t look very encouraging. I imagine there are many potential astronaut career candidates still in their first college, just thinking about one day being an Astronaut. Some may be having second thoughts due to this still unanswered riddle.

I’ve heard people say they ‘don’t care’ if the first few trips to Venus or Mars becomes a one way venture, good only for the gathering of more data. That’s easy to say in theory, but when you realize a few folks right now may be on a cruise of futility, one might have second thoughts.


18 posted on 07/25/2024 9:00:46 PM PDT by lee martell
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It’s mostly awful for Boeing and their stockholders. The astronauts will make it home one way or the other ... maybe not on the spacecraft they started out on.


19 posted on 07/25/2024 9:09:16 PM PDT by Campion (Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - Little Flower)
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To: george76

They have space food sticks and Tang. They’ll be okay.


20 posted on 07/25/2024 9:12:23 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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