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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That’s ultimately what did Challenger in. Not the cold weather.
Jun 28, 2024:
“ The first astronauts to fly Boeing’s troubled Starliner are definitely not “stranded” at the International Space Station, NASA insisted..”
July 26th:
“ but thruster failures and helium leaks on Boeing’s capsule prompted NASA and Boeing to keep them up longer.”
Sheesh, They’re stranded. Just admit it and get it fixed. Or call Russia.
Our government simply can’t help but lie. All the time.
At least they’re not up there alone, and they will have plenty of supplies. They’ll get down, eventually. I just hope somebody’s paying their salaries while they’re up there.
Get a grip.
They’re on the ISS. SpaceX Dragon spacecraft have a habit of visiting the place. They can, and probably will, catch a ride home on one of them. Meanwhile, Boeing will try to land the Starliner under automatic control ... and I (very unscientifically) give it 0.5 probability of successfully returning.
Good Heavens!!!
Crew Dragon is no big secret, people!
Don't be idiots.
Yes that hot fire test is going to happen
Different divisions not related
Not even close
The thrusters are on the service module
The HE leaks are not happening due to being shut down during the docked phase
But the starliner is taking up one of the two docking ports used by dragon and starliner
Get over yourself. How would you fix it Mr idiot?
Guess what’s on the other one?
A Dragon!
Solution: Two extra seats on the next Dragon, and adapters to mate the Starliner suits to the Dragon air system.
#33 is for you, too.
But go ahead! Run in circles, scream and shout. It’s mildly amusing.
We need a photoshopped version of 'Baghdad Bob' as 'Boeing Bob', maybe with a flight suit, and roll him out every time Boeing screws up.
Call Spacex and warm up the rescue mission.
CC
I wonder how much food they have?
Like I said, they’re stranded.
You can say that if you like being WRONG.
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