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NASA prepares for Starliner return from ISS
NASA Space Technology WASHINGTON — NASA is preparing for the uncrewed return to Earth of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft as the agency begins work on changes to the spacecraft to correct problems found during its test flight.Agency officials confirmed at a Sept. 4 briefing plans for Starliner to undock from the station Sept. 6 at 6:04 p.m. Eastern. The spacecraft will quickly depart the vicinity of the ISS and perform a deorbit burn at 11:17 p.m. Eastern, setting up a landing of the Starliner crew capsule at White Sands Space Harbor, New Mexico, at 12:03 a.m. Eastern Sept. 7.Steve Stich, NASA commercial crew program manager, said there were no technical issues being worked ahead of Starliner’s uncrewed departure to complete the Crew Flight Test (CFT) mission. Weather at White Sands was also forecast to be...
The Starliner stranding shows why NASA was wise to have a backup plan
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NASA Boeing Starliner Astronauts to Return Home on SpaceX Flight in 2025
NASA Space Technology Image Credit: Houston Chronicle via Getty ImagPilot Sunita "Suni" Williams and Commander Barry “Butch” Wilmore from NASA’s Boeing Starliner will return home in 2025 on a SpaceX flight. The news comes more than two months after the astronauts embarked on their mission, which was scheduled to be an eight-day stay in space.“NASA has decided that Butch and Suni will return with Crew-9 next February, and that Starliner will return unscrewed,” NASA administrator Bill Nelson said during a press conference on August 24, according to the space agency’s website.Nelson went on to note that Boeing “has worked very hard with NASA to get the necessary data to make this decision” while pointing out that space travel comes with risks.After extensive review by experts across the agency, NASA's @BoeingSpace Crew Flight Test will...
Can They Prevent the Starliner From Colliding With the Space Station?
NASA Space Technology Home » Space » Can They Prevent the Starliner From Colliding With the Space Station?NASA is worried that multiple small reaction control system thrusters could fail while the Starliner is near the space station and cause a disaster. There are combinations of Starliner thrusters failures would make it become uncontrollable and cause a collision with the space station. The thrusters are needed later in the flight back to Earth to set up the critical de-orbit burn and entry in Earth’s atmosphere.Boeing Starliner software needs to be updated for it to be able to undock without crew onboard (even though it did this on the last test flight), and this will take a week. Boeing has DIFFERENT software for crewed and unmanned Starliner and it takes a week or more to...
