Boeing's Long Flight Delay – in Space

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🗓️ 12 August 2024

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In June, Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft successfully docked at the International Space Station. But issues with its propulsion system have called into question its safety. Now, NASA is weighing alternatives to bring the astronauts home. WSJ’s Micah Maidenberg shares how the Starliner program has faced a bevy of problems and what it means for Boeing. Further Reading: - Boeing Sent Two Astronauts Into Space. Now It Needs to Get Them Home. - NASA Says Starliner Astronauts Could Return With SpaceX—Next Year - Two Astronauts Are Stuck in Space. Here’s How They’re Passing the Time. Further Listening: - Elon Musk’s Unusual Relationships With Women at SpaceX - The New Race to the Moon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	25. Status Check. Go Atlas Check. Go Atlas,
0:06.4	Go Atlas. Go Starliner. Godspeed Butch and Sunny.
0:15.0	Back in June, two astronauts, Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams, set course for the International Space Station.
0:22.0	Two, one, ignition.
0:25.0	And lift off of Starliner at Atlas Five,
0:29.0	carrying two American heroes drawing a line to the stars.
0:34.1	The astronauts took to space aboard Starliner,
0:37.0	Boeing's flagship spacecraft.
0:39.5	It was the first time Starliner had ever flown
0:41.9	with humans on board.
0:43.9	The mission was part of a major test
0:46.5	to see if the craft could successfully carry a crew to the ISS.
0:50.4	It was a big moment for Boeing.
0:52.4	The two astronauts traveled to the space station,
0:55.0	which orbits 250 miles above Earth,
0:58.0	docked successfully and boarded.
1:00.0	Sunny William coming through in her blue flight suit.
1:04.0	And followed shortly behind by commander of Starliner,
1:08.0	Butch Wilmore.
1:09.0	Now back on the space station, the third visit for both astronauts
1:12.0	and the first crewed flight
1:14.0	test of the Starliner spacecraft. But the mission hasn't gone as smoothly as
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