NASA and Boeing Prepare for Uncrewed Starliner Return Mission

Space Daily ^ | Aug 30, 2024 | Clarence Oxford

[NorthMountain]

This frees the docking port for SpaceX Crew 9.

Then people can stop the silly blather about astronauts being “stranded”.

And the NASA program manager should be asking Boeing some serious and seriously uncomfortable questions. Like: “Why the hell should we give you even one more penny when SpaceX is doing the job properly at half the cost?”

[NorthMountain]

The US relied heavily on Russian rockets servicing the Space Station for at least a decade. Maybe they can ask Putin, very, very nicely to bring them down safely?

< sigh >

Do at least try to keep up.

[Bayard]

All I can say is unbolt that curse carefully. Don’t want its last act to damage the station.

[SunkenCiv]

It seems to me that fault-tolerance for the malfunctioning thrusters will be needed, but that might end badly. Of course, I've thought it will end badly since the thing started to go haywire on the way up.

[minnesota_bound]

They expect it to land... I am thinking it will burn up on the way. Otherwise why aren’t the 2 astronauts onboard?

[mabarker1]

They’re concerned about the Thrusters malfunctioning and stranding the Crew in whatever situation: in a bad orbit, wrong angle and either a too steep entry and burning up, to shallow and skipping off out into space with no chance of getting back to earth, crashing into space debris, etc. (little things like that.)

[minnesota_bound]

The capsule made a perfect landing minus crew...
The original crew is mumbling “Now we got to live with these two new ‘naults till February!”

[mabarker1]

Thanks for the info. So boeing managed to not destroy the craft that We Taxpayers paid for. That’s good to hear.