2024-06-22 13:10:00
Revealed on 22 June 2024 at 16.10.
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft has encountered a number of issues and its launch has been repeatedly delayed. Now his return to Earth is being delayed for the third time. Two astronauts have to be affected person.
A sequence of delays
At first there was a delay. Then one other delay. Then extra delays. The Starliner capsule, developed by Boeing for NASA, was imagined to launch in 2017, but it surely did not take off till June 5, 2024. That is greater than 7 years late. On 1 June, the launch was canceled lower than 4 minutes earlier than the scheduled time. On June 6, 26 hours following liftoff, the Starliner docked with the Worldwide House Station.
Photograph: NASA
Unsure return
The 2 astronauts on board, Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams, had been attributable to return to Earth on June 13. Their return was initially delayed till June 18. So on June 26. We now know they will not be once more till July. Engineers from Boeing and NASA need to examine some issues, together with with the propulsion system. The docking with the Worldwide House Station was fairly tumultuous. In keeping with NASA, the Starliner continues to be able to returning astronauts to Earth within the occasion of an emergency. The return should happen earlier than mid-July, as a result of the gas tanks of the Concord module, to which the Starliner is docked, will run dry following 45 days.
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