Last month, NASA decided Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore would return in February. Los Angeles, United States: A US astronaut stuck on the International Space Station said Friday he believed Boeing’s Starliner could have carried him home if more time had been available to work through the beleaguered spacecraft’s issues. Last week, Barry “Butch” Wilmore … Read more
It’s been a big week for space travel, after Boeing’s Starliner craft returned to Earth empty, a new record was set for the number of people in orbit and the first private space walk was a success. Now, footage of that spacewalk is online, offering you a first person view of life as a billionaire … Read more
Boeing’s first astronaut mission ended Friday night with an empty capsule landing and two test pilots still in space, left behind until next year because NASA judged their return too risky. Six hours after departing the International Space Station, Starliner parachuted into New Mexico’s White Sands Missile Range, descending on autopilot through the desert darkness. … Read more
Until now, NASA has paid Boeing roughly $2.7 billion of the $4.6 billion total potential value of its commercial crew contract, according to Finch. The Starliner contract NASA awarded Boeing in 2014 originally had a maximum value of $4.2 billion, but contract modifications since 2014 have added $400 million to the deal. Most of the … Read more
Photo: NASA With NASA announcing that astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will return to Earth next March on SpaceX’s Crew-9 mission, the focus quickly shifted to what will happen to the beleaguered Boeing Starliner. The space agency plans to autonomously undock the craft from the International Space Station but fears the Starliner could drift … Read more
The troubled Boeing Starliner spacecraft is being sent back to Earth this Friday evening, NASA confirmed Wednesday. In a news conference ahead of the embattled spacecraft’s re-entry into our atmosphere, officials from NASA’s Commercial Crew and International Space Station Program said that, weather permitting, the uncrewed spacecraft will depart from the International Space Station (ISS) … Read more
“I refer to LunaNet as the big umbrella,” Gramling says. “It is an architecture that defines the standards that are going to be used for interoperable communications and position, navigation, and timing services. There’s a large effort underway to define those standards and document those in a LunaNet interoperability specification.” “It’s a very different paradigm … Read more
On Saturday NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore noticed some strange noises emanating from a speaker inside the Starliner spacecraft. “I’ve got a question about Starliner,” Wilmore radioed down to Mission Control, at Johnson Space Center in Houston. “There’s a strange noise coming through the speaker … I don’t know what’s making it.” Wilmore said he was … Read more
Boeing’s Starliner mission has been an utter cock up for the aerospace company. Shortly after the craft launched to the International Space Station with two astronauts onboard, issues were found with the craft that mean Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore will now be stuck in space until 2025. Now, it’s emerged that the harsh realities … Read more
Photo: MIGUEL J. RODRIGUEZ CARRILLO / Contributor (Getty Images) This has not been the best year for Boeing. Bad news keeps coming out on its planes, and its multi-billion-dollar spaceship has been stuck in limbo, with NASA trying to decide whether it can be used to bring two stranded astronauts back to Earth. Now, after … Read more
