Butch and Suni lost in Space till 2025? Boeing’s Starliner still stuck on 1st crewed flight
via thefreeonline on 17th August 2024 by Agencies — (thefree now on Telegram– t.me/thefreeonline )
Continuing fiasco: US Astronauts still stuck in space
The two NASA astronauts are stranded aboard the International Space Station as their spacecraft, a Boeing Starliner, continues to ‘experience endless but lucrative technical difficulties’.
NASA astronauts Butchy Wilmore and Suni Williams The long, thorny history of Boeing’s Starliner spaceship – MSN –
Way back in 2014 Boeing got $5.6 BILLION so far for the relatively simple task to develop a «commercial crew» transportation system.
It was just too embarrassing to have to always depend on the Russians.
LOST IN SPACE – Who’s to Blame
10 years later, after unbelievable farcical delays and a $1.4 billion cost overrun the maiden trip set off, only to have at least 4 helium leaks and thruster problems, and leave its 2 US astronauts STRANDED on the Space Station awaiting repairs.
Incredibly Starliner’s first flight carrying astronauts was actually targeted for a launch seven years ago. About two years later, in December 2019, Boeing was at last ready to send an empty Starliner up to the Space station but new faults set back the date again and again until 2024.
Comparisons have surged with the ongoing safety plague on Boeing Jets with various whistleblowers denouncing a culture of safety shortcuts to boost profits.
However in the ongoing Starliner debacle saving money can hardly be the reason. Answers from Boeing leaders have been at times stunningly opaque.
Of course meanwhile Space X has built a system, after multiple failures, capable of rescuing the Unfortunate American Astronauts but it seems they won’t be ready to do so till 2025
«A little bit more time» – but they’re already 7 years late!
US international tech prowess is in an shambles – though of course the media keeps mum and talks instead about how brave Butch is and Suni’s Silly Space Antics.
‘No problem to bring them back tomorrow if the US Exceptionals would only eat humble pie and ask the evil Russians for a ride’.
In fact on 14th Aug ’24 the Russian ‘Progress MS-28’ spacecraft took off, carrying fuel, water and food is reached the International Space Station in two days.
Brave Butch and Silly Sumi could surely hitch a ride home, but must spend up to 8 months quietly cooped in a metal box with four (always unmentioned) other astronauts – Just to ameliorate American Arrogance till the media can report their triumphant return.
..”Silly Suni could surely hitch a ride home..”
NASA has said it will decide by the end of the month how it might bring home two astronauts who were stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) when their Starliner spacecraft malfunctioned yet again.
Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams took off for the ISS on June 5 as the crew on the Boeing-built Starliner’s first ever crewed flight after a 10 year delay.
They were meant to be in space for eight days but found themselves stuck on the ISS after the Starliner’s thrusters malfunctioned yet again.
Prior to the flight, the company also stated that the spacecraft already had a “small helium leak” but insisted it was not a critical “safety of flight issue” and could be managed.
Next stop Mars??
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