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Boeing Starliner may not bring its first astronauts home after all.

NASA officials, absent a representative from Boeing, updated reporters today (Aug. 7) about how troubleshooting Starliner's undocking and landing may affect the next SpaceX astronaut flight to the International Space Station.

Starliner has faced a lot of difficulties since launching its first astronaut mission, most especially after 5 of its 28 reaction control thrusters (RCS) misfired during docking with the ISS on June 6. Work on the matter is ongoing, and as NASA revealed yesterday (Aug. 6), it will require the next launch to the ISS to wait. Crew-9, SpaceX's ninth operational flight to the ISS designed for four astronauts, will now launch Sept. 24 instead of Aug. 18. That's because NASA may send only two astronauts up on Crew-9, and bring the Starliner astronauts with the two returning crew sometime around February 2025.

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The duo was supposed to stay in space for roughly 10 days, but it now has been north of 60 and counting. NASA continues to emphasize the astronauts can leave the ISS if an emergency arises, but agency officials sound less certain now that the astronauts will come home on Starliner, as the mission plan called for.

"We don't just have to bring a crew back on Starliner, for example. We could bring them back on another vehicle."

That vehicle may very well be SpaceX.

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Regardless of who is on board, per a task order issued by NASA, SpaceX Crew-9 could launch with two astronauts and two seats filled with mass simulators to account for the empty seats. Crew-9 would stay docked to ISS for a normal six-month mission, with Williams and Wilmore returning early next year in the two leftover seats.

mvscal wrote: ↑Thu Aug 08, 2024 8:11 pm Damn. The Starliner is such a huge piece of shit it will probably be the name of the next horse that Spoux will own 1/5,067th of or,perhaps, his BiL's next boat.

Meat Head wrote: ↑Thu Aug 22, 2024 11:23 pm Bad news keeps slowly trickling out. Almost like they are hiding the seriousness of this shit.

https://futurism.com/stranded-astronaut ... compatible

Time to walk away from Star liner and let Boeing concentrate on airplanes.

I wonder if that lady astronaut is tired of picking her nose. Or maybe she's giving some great rimmers up there to the crew.

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Diego in Seattle wrote: ↑Sat Aug 24, 2024 5:44 pm Are they going to call AAA to pick up the Starliner?

Dr_Phibes wrote: ↑Mon Aug 26, 2024 6:21 am That big-nosed, homeless woman you sent up there

The Seer wrote: ↑Mon Aug 26, 2024 1:40 pm My GF would be peddling that sucker back to Earth herself if she had packed her luggage for a week and found out it had to last 6 months.....

Roux wrote:Also, it is amazing to see how much NASA, Boeing, the US, and all the other countries involved with the ISS, are all doing in coordination, just to keep up the facade of a globe shaped earth. Why are they so scared of the TRUTH??????????

Softball Bat wrote: ↑Thu Aug 29, 2024 3:22 am

Roux wrote:Also, it is amazing to see how much NASA, Boeing, the US, and all the other countries involved with the ISS, are all doing in coordination, just to keep up the facade of a globe shaped earth. Why are they so scared of the TRUTH??????????

Look at the screen on the left in this video.
18:30 to 19:15.

Why are moths flying around up in space?

Space.com wrote:Boeing may sell off its space business, including its Starliner program, amid large financial losses for the company, a media report suggests.

The discussions are said to be "at an early stage," according to an exclusive in the Wall Street Journal. The reported talks come less than two months after Starliner completed its first astronaut test flight on Sept. 6 by touching down in New Mexico autonomously, without its two crewmembers.

Boeing is known for decades of work with NASA, including being the prime contractor for the International Space Station. (The company continues engineering support services for ISS to this day.) But Boeing is facing mounting financial issues this year, including a protracted strike by its largest labor union and significant deficits in the Starliner program.
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And it's uncertain how much of the business may be sold, if a sale happens at all. For example, Boeing may keep its role in leading the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for NASA's Artemis program of moon exploration, the WSJ report noted. The SLS successfully launched the Artemis 1 uncrewed mission to lunar orbit in 2022 and will launch astronauts around the moon as soon as 2025, with Artemis 2.

Boeing also has a 50% stake, along with Lockheed Martin, in United Launch Alliance, a national security focused-launch provider whose Atlas V rocket launched the Starliner mission on June 5. Lockheed and Boeing have reportedly been looking to sell ULA, as the joint venture moves into launches with a next-generation rocket known as Vulcan Centaur. Vulcan completed its second-ever launch on Oct. 2.
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Meat Head wrote: ↑Wed Oct 30, 2024 11:21 pm I heard she was giving a rimmer with that big nose to a Ruskie astronaut and he kicked a leak in the russian module.

Dr_Phibes wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2024 5:25 am

Meat Head wrote: ↑Wed Oct 30, 2024 11:21 pm I heard she was giving a rimmer with that big nose to a Ruskie astronaut and he kicked a leak in the russian module.

Just think what she could do with the CanadArm



We're currently working on the leg. When we get the whole body, she's up Uranus without a paddle.