Pay attention stay: NASA offering replace about troubled Boeing Starliner astronaut mission at the moment

a grey cone-shaped spacecraft in the foreground with a blue-and-white earth behind it

Boeing’s Starliner is imaged docked on the Worldwide House Station in 2024, throughout Crew Flight Check, its first-ever astronaut mission.
(Picture credit score: NASA)

NASA will present an replace concerning the ongoing astronaut mission of Boeing’s Starliner capsule at the moment (Aug. 14), and you may hear stay.

The teleconference about Starliner’s Crew Flight Check (CFT) mission will start at 1:00 p.m. EDT (1700 GMT). NASA will stream audio of the briefing stay, and House.com will carry the published if the company makes it out there as common.

CFT launched on June 5, sending NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore to the Worldwide House Station (ISS) for a deliberate weeklong keep. Starliner stayed for much longer, nevertheless; it stays docked to the orbiting lab whereas NASA and Boeing troubleshoot points with the capsule’s response management system (RCS) thrusters, a handful of which failed throughout its method to the ISS on June 6.

NASA has nonetheless not introduced a goal departure date for Starliner, and it is attainable the capsule will not find yourself carrying Williams and Wilmore again to Earth; the duo might come house in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, if Starliner’s points aren’t solved to NASA’s satisfaction.

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We might be taught extra about that call throughout at the moment’s briefing. The individuals are:

Ken Bowersox, affiliate administrator, NASA’s House Operations Mission Directorate
Joel Montalbano, deputy affiliate administrator, NASA’s House Operations Mission Directorate
Russ DeLoach, chief, NASA’s Workplace of Security and Mission Assurance
Joe Acaba, NASA chief astronaut
Emily Nelson, chief flight director, NASA’s Flight Operations Directorate

a blue-and-grey cone-shaped spacecraft can be seen above a rapidly rotating earth, which appears blurry in the background — Boeing’s Starliner docked on the Worldwide House Station throughout Crew Flight Check in July 2024. (Picture credit score: NASA)

CFT is Starliner’s third spaceflight general, after uncrewed check missions to the ISS in December 2019 and Could 2022. The 2019 effort failed — Starliner received caught within the incorrect orbit for a rendezvous with the orbiting lab — however the 2022 flight was profitable.

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NASA awarded each Boeing and SpaceX contracts again in September 2014 to ferry company astronauts to and from the ISS. SpaceX flew its model of CFT again in 2020 and is now in the course of its eighth operational, long-duration astronaut flight to the station for NASA, often known as Crew-8.

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