:#NASA: Starliner doubts. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
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:#NASA: Starliner doubts. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-announces-launch-coverage-for-the-first-starliner-manned-capsule-launch-on-may-6-2024/
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island? |
| 0:04.0 | Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the |
| 0:09.1 | tropics. |
| 0:10.1 | But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise, |
| 0:18.0 | the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder. Wish you were here. Follow the price of Paradise Now, wherever |
| 0:26.7 | you listen to podcasts. This is a series, I in the world. I'm John Bachelor. Behind the Black, Bob Zimmerman is here to take us to Hubble, |
| 0:41.0 | Universe and Amir Bob's biography of Hubble, and Hubble is aging, but worthy |
| 0:47.8 | and out of safe mode. Bob, a very good evening to remind what safe mode means. |
| 0:52.3 | Good evening. |
| 0:53.0 | What happens with Hubble and this happens with all spacecrafts. |
| 0:56.3 | It's a computer, detect something that isn't quite right. |
| 0:59.7 | Rather than continue to do science operations, if go wrong could destroy this spacecraft |
| 1:05.3 | the computer puts it into a typical safe mode which means just protects it, keeps it operating, |
| 1:11.5 | sends back a notice there's a problem and nothing is held in |
| 1:16.8 | safety position while engineers will look at the situation try to figure |
| 1:21.8 | what's wrong. Hubble went at the situation and try to figure it what's wrong. |
| 1:23.0 | Hubble went at the safe mode on April 23rd because one of the gyros was giving out readings |
| 1:28.7 | that were faulty and so it only has three gyros left. It loses one more. It will no longer be able to |
| 1:34.4 | take sharp images though and he'll be able to collect data. And so they watch |
| 1:39.4 | those gyros very very carefully and that same gyro had gone out in November I think and so it had the same issue |
| 1:46.1 | so they put it into safe mode but earlier this week a week later the engineers announced that they |
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