NASA officials announced on Saturday that the troubled Boeing Starliner spacecraft that shuttled two astronauts to space in June will return to Earth without them. It’s too dangerous for people.
No one can dock with the ISS until the Boeing Starliner lemon leaves.
Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are stuck in space until February. They’ve been onboard for 80 days instead of the seven originally planned.
They will now return with a SpaceX Crew-9 Dragon mission, which will not launch before Sept. 24. That mission needs to reduce its crew of four to two to make room for the stranded astronauts, who are expected to return in February 2025. The Crew-9 mission will carry additional cargo and Dragon-specific spacesuits for Wilmore and Williams, as their Boeing spacesuits are incompatible with the SpaceX spacecraft.
Starliner is expected to depart from the space station autonomously and land back on Earth in early September. It had multiple issues, including faulty thrusters, and could burn up in space.
We just gave and could burn up in space because we reward mediocrity.
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“ They’ve been onboard for 80 days instead of the seven originally planned”…..William Shatner was on Fox talking about this, he brought up the question i had a while back……….. what are they eating? do they have water to drink?
I sat on the bleachers at Cape Canaveral and watched this launch. During the countdown from 10-9-8 there was a voice over the loud speaker (that was blaring with NASA launch commanders’ chatter) saying “STOP COUNT DOWN”. The launch was delayed multiple times, constantly being pushed back. We were told there was a “WEATHER CAUSED DELAY” not a helium leak… Read more »
Actually right before countdown a female voice announced “we detect emergency system” she said it twice,
I find your statement believable. My doubting husband, however doesn’t believe there was an announcement that could be heard by the public. Can you elaborate? Thank you.