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On the 1-year anniversary of the Starliner's doomed launch, revisit the biggest moments of a spaceflight mission that ...
Joe Skipper/Reuters Helium leaks and a thruster issue then threatened to delay Starliner's docking. Five days after docking at the ISS on June 6, NASA and Boeing said the spacecraft was ...
NASA astronauts Williams and Wilmore revealed they feared not making it home after Starliner thruster failures extended their ...
Nasa pair Butch and Suni tell the BBC they feared being unable to get home when they failed to dock on the ISS.
Although it ultimately successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS), five of the capsule's reaction thrusters malfunctioned, delaying docking by over an hour. When Starliner ...
The empty Starliner spacecraft returned to Earth earlier this month to free up a docking port for the delayed ... will have to wait it out at the ISS until February after a flight readiness ...
docking with the station the following day. At the time the mission launched, NASA anticipated keeping Starliner at the ISS for as little as eight days, even providing at a post-launch news ...
The crew’s decision to prioritize docking over an uncertain deorbit burn ... a span of minutes during the final approach (within 260 meters of the ISS). After the fourth failure, Starliner had lost ...
where they’ll “test the end-to-end capabilities of the Starliner system, including launch, docking, and return to Earth.” The two astronauts will stay at the ISS for about a week before ...
NASA's Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore launched to the International Space Station (ISS ... but Starliner experienced thruster malfunctions during its approach and docking maneuvers.
Getty Images Wilmore and Williams were supposed to come back home June 13 after a week on the ISS ... docking,” he added. Stich claimed that despite the issues, NASA still has confidence in ...
Essentially, Wilmore could not fully control Starliner any longer. But simply abandoning the docking attempt was not ... I made was to Vincent LaCourt, the ISS flight director, who was one of ...