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NASA astronauts Suni Williams, left, and Butch Wilmore, wearing Boeing spacesuits, depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 5, 2024.
The mission was extended several times to allow for analysis, and NASA eventually decided to leave the crew aboard ISS and return Starliner to Earth without the crew after three months in space. The crew will return on a different spacecraft. [13] Boe-CFT was the first launch of a crewed spacecraft by an Atlas V launch vehicle.
The return of two Nasa astronauts stuck for months on the International Space Station has been further delayed to at least the end of March, the space agency announced on Tuesday.. Butch Wilmore ...
The decision means the Starliner will return emptyhanded to Earth to free up a docking port for SpaceX Crew-9, which is scheduled to reach the space station on Sept. 24 for a six-month rotation ...
The Commercial Crew Program uses the SpaceX Crew Dragon to shuttle astronauts to and from the ISS. [40] [41] [104] The Boeing CST-100 Starliner will join it in this role after it is human-rated. Both spacecraft are automated but can be remotely controlled from the ground or manually controlled by their crew via touch screens in case of an ...
Dana Weigel, manager of NASA’s International Space Station Program, said the crew is feeling positive. “They love Starliner, they love being in the vehicle, they love being on ISS,” Weigel ...
SpaceX Crew-9 is the ninth operational NASA Commercial Crew Program flight and the 15th crewed orbital flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft. Originally scheduled to launch a crew of four to the International Space Station (ISS) in mid-August 2024, the mission was delayed by more than a month due to technical issues with the Boeing Starliner Calypso spacecraft that was docked at the ISS for the ...
NASA funneled $4.2 billion into Starliner's development. The contract is part of the agency's Commercial Crew Program, an effort to give NASA multiple US-based options for human spaceflight rather ...