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Yesterday — 28 June 2024Main stream

Why NASA and Boeing Are Being So Careful to Bring the Starliner Astronauts Home

✇NYT: Science
By: Kenneth Chang
28 June 2024 at 18:41
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will spend additional weeks in orbit as teams on the ground study malfunctioning thrusters on the Starliner spacecraft.

© NASA, via Associated Press

The Starliner spacecraft docked to the Harmony module of the International Space Station, orbiting 262 miles above Egypt’s Mediterranean coast on June 13.
Before yesterdayMain stream

Boeing’s Starliner Overcomes Malfunctioning Thrusters to Dock at Space Station

✇NYT: Science
By: Kenneth Chang
6 June 2024 at 16:00
Two NASA astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, opened the hatch of the spacecraft and boarded the outpost in orbit.

© NASA Johnson

The Boeing Starliner capsule en route to docking with the International Space Station on Thursday.

Meet Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, the NASA Astronauts Riding on Boeing’s Starliner

✇NYT: Science
By: Kenneth Chang
2 June 2024 at 10:32

© Cristobal Herrera-Ulashkevich/EPA, via Shutterstock

The astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams on their way to the Starliner spacecraft on May 6, before the launch was called off.
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