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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Is Boeing Lost in Space?

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

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News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Boeing’s Starliner has now landed successfully—but Butch and Sunny weren’t on it. With a pair of astronauts still stuck on the ISS, when will NASA be ready to bring them back? And how?


Guest: Micah Maidenberg, space business reporter for the Wall Street Journal.


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0:25.2

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0:26.4

and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. Touch down. Starliner is back on Earth. That landing coming at 1101 and 35 seconds central time.

0:46.3

On September 6th, Boeing's Starliner spacecraft made its way to the ground in White Sands New

0:51.4

Mexico.

0:52.4

I was watching with some baited breath to see how it would perform.

0:58.0

That's Michael Madenberg, who covers space and the business of space for the Wall Street Journal.

1:05.8

Boeing's starliner landed without a hitch, but the astronauts who had launched in the starliner

1:10.6

in June for what was supposed to be an eight-day mission weren't on it.

1:15.5

They stayed in the International Space Station, which they spoke from on Friday.

1:20.7

Every single test flight, especially a first flight of a spacecraft or an aircraft that has ever occurred, has found issues that's things that you just cannot think about.

1:31.0

90% of our training is preparing for the unexpected.

1:35.2

NASA didn't want to take the risk of putting Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams,

1:39.9

known as Butch and Sunny, back on the starliner.

1:43.0

And after weeks, actually a couple months of pretty intense debate about the safety of the vehicle,

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