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NASA considering returning Starliner astronauts on Crew Dragon
Top Stories Tamfitronics LOGAN, Utah — NASA is evaluating options to have the two astronauts who flew to the International Space Station on a Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft return instead on a SpaceX Crew Dragon in early 2025, given questions about the safety of Starliner.At a Aug. 7 briefing, NASA officials said they expect to decide around the middle of August if it is too risky to have astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who arrived at the station two months ago on Starliner, to return on the same spacecraft. That would require them to stay on the station while Starliner performs an automated undocking and return to Earth.In that scenario, NASA would fly the Crew-9 mission, whose launch was delayed one day earlier from Aug. 18 to no earlier than Sept. 24with two people...
Voyager 1 returning science data again
NASA Space Technology An illustration of one of the twin Voyager spacecraft now in interstellar space. Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechWASHINGTON — The four instruments on NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft are returning science data for the first time since a computer malfunction last November, as scientists hope to keep the mission operating for up to another decade.NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced June 13 that the four instruments on the spacecraft, which measure plasma waves, magnetic fields and particles in interstellar space, have started returning data again. Two of the instruments started up immediately after commands were sent to the spacecraft May 19 while the other two required what JPL called “some additional work” to resume operations.The instruments had been offline since November 2023, when a computer malfunction on board the spacecraft caused it to return garbled data. A...
