NASA Boeing Starliner Astronauts to Return Home on SpaceX Flight in 2025
27 Aug
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NASA Boeing Starliner Astronauts to Return Home on SpaceX Flight in 2025

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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...
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NASA decides to keep 2 astronauts, including Needham native, in space until February, nixes return on troubled Boeing capsule
27 Aug
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NASA decides to keep 2 astronauts, including Needham native, in space until February, nixes return on troubled Boeing capsule

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NASA Space Technology Skip to Main ContentNational NewsIn this image from video provided by NASA, astronauts Suni Williams, left, and Butch Wilmore give a news conference aboard the International Space Station on Wednesday, July 10, 2024. NASA via APBy MARCIA DUNN, Associated Press August 25, 2024 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA decided Saturday it’s too risky to bring two astronauts back to Earth in Boeing’s troubled new capsule, and they’ll have to wait until next year for a ride home with SpaceX. What should have been a weeklong test flight for the pair will now last more than eight months.The seasoned pilots have been stuck at the International Space Station since the...
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‘Fireflies’ help NASA map radiation around Jupiter and its moons
27 Aug
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‘Fireflies’ help NASA map radiation around Jupiter and its moons

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NASA Space Technology (Image credit: MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images)The first ever 3D radiation map of Jupiter and its moons has been created using low-light cameras aboard the Juno Spacecraft that have been tweaked to operate as radiation detectors.The map reveals how Jupiter's powerful magnetosphere influences the radiation environment around one of the gas giant's moons, Europawhich is crucial for understanding the moon's surface chemistry, potential habitability, and the challenges of future space missions to this icy world."This is the first detailed radiation map of the region at these higher energies, which is a major step in understanding how Jupiter's radiation environment works," said Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, in a NASA statement. "This will help planning observations for the next generation of missions to the Jovian...
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Boeing Employees ‘Humiliated’ As SpaceX To Rescue Astronauts Butch Wilmore, Sunita Williams Due To Starliner Issues
27 Aug
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Boeing Employees ‘Humiliated’ As SpaceX To Rescue Astronauts Butch Wilmore, Sunita Williams Due To Starliner Issues

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NASA Space Technology Last Updated: August 26, 2024, 14:31 ISTWashington D.C., United States of America (USA)NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams walk at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, on the day of Boeing's Starliner-1 Crew Flight Test (CFT) mission, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., June 1. (Reuters)NASA Space Technology Boeing employees are “humiliated” after NASA chose SpaceX to rescue astronauts stranded on the ISS due to issues with Boeing’s Starliner capsule, a worker revealsBoeing employees are reportedly feeling “humiliated” after NASA announced that two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) due to issues with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft will have to be rescued by SpaceX next year.Butch Wilmore and Indian-American Sunita Williams, who went to the ISS in June for what was supposed to be an 8-day mission, will now have to wait until...
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