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Crew Returns to Space Science Day after Starliner Lands – Space Station
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft descends to Earth underneath parachutes for a landing in New Mexico completing the Orbital Flight Test-2 mission. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls The seven Expedition 67 crew members are resuming their normal schedule of science and maintenance activities following Wednesday’s departure of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. The orbital residents focused on vein scans, robotics, and …
Starliner Completes Test Mission With Soft Landing
Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule parachuted safely to Earth at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico on Wednesday afternoon, capping a mostly successful uncrewed test trip to the International Space Station. The capsule was back on the ground less than four hours after it detached from the ISS and carried garbage from the station …
NASA plans to make Starliner crew assignments this summer
WASHINGTON — As Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner prepares to return from its brief trip to the International Space Station, NASA officials say they’ll wait until this summer to determine the schedule for the vehicle’s first crewed flight and the astronauts who will fly it. NASA said May 23 it would proceed with plans to have Starliner …
Teams in New Mexico gear up for Wednesday landing of Boeing Starliner capsule (photos)
Boeing’s Starliner capsule is scheduled to return to Earth on Wednesday (May 25), and teams on the ground have been gearing to welcome the spacecraft home. Starliner launched May 19 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida and successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) a day later. The capsule’s uncrewed Orbital Flight …
Starliner Nears Launch, Crew Works Space Botany and Human Research – Space Station
The Moon, with Earth’s shadow draping across it during a lunar eclipse, is pictured from the International Space Station. The International Space Station is gearing up for the targeted arrival of Boeing’s Starliner crew ship on the company’s Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission. Meanwhile, the Expedition 67 crew is continuing its ongoing life science activities …
Space Station Crew Preps for Boeing Starliner During Human Research and Robotics
Boeing CST-100 Starliner Illustration. Credit: NASA The International Space Station (ISS) is getting ready to welcome Boeing’s new Starliner crew ship due to lift off next week on the company’s Orbital Flight Test-2 mission. Meanwhile, the seven-member Expedition 67 crew continued its human research and robotics work today. NASA Flight Engineers Kjell Lindgren and Bob …
This time, can Boeing’s Starliner finally shine?
Enlarge / Boeing says its Starliner spacecraft is ready to roll to the launch pad in Florida. Boeing Boeing and NASA say the Starliner spacecraft is ready for a do-over flight, with a second uncrewed test mission of the spacecraft now scheduled for May 19. Nine months have passed since a standard pre-flight check of …
‘Close Call’: NASA-Boeing Investigation of Starliner Flight Finds Lapses
An uncrewed test flight of Starliner, a Boeing spacecraft designed to carry NASA astronauts, could have ended in disaster in December because of lapses that allowed software errors to slip through undetected and unfixed before the spacecraft launched, according to a review by NASA and Boeing that was announced on Friday. The review team made …
Boeing Starliner is the first US-made crew capsule to land on the ground
Starliner didn’t dock with the International Space Station as planned, but it still collected ample amounts of data across the flight, including Rosie’s insights as to how humans would fare during a trip. The team likely collected about 85 to 90 percent of what they were looking for, Boeing’s Jim Chilton said during a post-touchdown …
Boeing Starliner launches crucial test flight, but encounters a problem after liftoff
NASA said plans for the capsule to rendezvous with the space station Saturday had been canceled and that the Starliner would attempt to land in the New Mexico desert on Sunday. The mission had been scheduled to last eight days. There were no crew members aboard the flight, the first for the Boeing spacecraft in …
