Let’s hope that astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore are comfortable up there on the International Space Station, because now NASA officials are saying they won’t be coming home until August. Steve Stich, NASA’s commercial crew program manager, tried to underplay this most recent delay. “Some of the data suggests...
on the International Space Station , because now NASA officials are saying they won’tSteve Stich, NASA’s commercial crew program manager, tried to underplay this mostbut we’ll just follow the data each step at a time,” he said in a press conference thisthe ISS ,” Williams said in a virtual press conference. “I’m not complaining.
Although NASA officials continue to insist that Williams andofficials are clearly not going to have the pair go through re-entry on Starliner based onSince the vehicle’s arrival at the ISS, NASA and Boeing engineers have been analyzingagain upon further testing once Starliner was docked, but are still working to understandopted to begin performing ground fire testing on an exact replica’s thrusters at theThe plan now is to make sure the helium leaks won’t cause any issues and to finishdoes...
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