As it flew up toward the International Space Station last summer, the Starliner spacecraft lost four thrusters. A NASA ...
Wilmore and Williams' original mission was to test the Starliner, but they ended up staying on the ISS for over nine months after the spacecraft experienced thruster problems ... It was the 24 th ...
Wilmore and Williams' original mission was to test the Starliner, but they ended up staying on the ISS for over nine months after the spacecraft experienced thruster ... the 24 th orbital launch ...
But numerous technical issues with their ship, including thruster failures and helium leaks, drove NASA to send Starliner home without its crew in September.
The SpaceX capsule tasked with bringing back two NASA astronauts that have spent months on the International Space Station (ISS) after thruster issues following the launch of Boeing’s Starliner ...
As the two NASA astronauts selected for the first crewed flight test of Boeing's Starliner, Wilmore and Williams arrived in June at the space station for what was meant to be a brief orbital stay.
Starting at 5:11 p.m., the flight plan called for an automated seven-and-a-half-minute de-orbit thruster ... and to bring the Starliner down, without its crew, by remote control.
DUNN: So Butch and Suni became the first people, the first astronauts, to strap into a Boeing Starliner capsule ... temporarily had to take control to try to get the thrusters back in business ...