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#STARLINER: Boeing's space troubles. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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🗓️ 3 August 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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#STARLINER: Boeing's space troubles. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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This is

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is CBS I and the world. I'm John Bachelor.

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Bob Zimmerman is here. He keeps the website behind the black.

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We're watching the ISS and and Starliner you will recall this is

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Boeing's two and from I S bus however since its first man test, the two astronauts have been on the

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ISS while on the ground the engineers work through questions about the

0:30.9

starliner in particular details that did not work well on the first time and Bob's been guiding us through these many weeks of waiting for clearance for

0:40.3

ISS to put the two astronauts back in starliner so they can for ISS

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and star liner so they can return to Earth.

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Bob is there good news?

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Good evening to you.

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No, I don't think this is good news.

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This is something that happened today NASA released a statement updating

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us on the engineering analysis going on with Boeing's Starliner after they've done hot fire tests last weekend of

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all the firstters attitude thrusters on Starliner while well, Doc to IFS.

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They had previously said that their ground test

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engineering had made things very clear.

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They seemed to understand what the problem was

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with those thrusters, and they just

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wanted to repeat the tests with the

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star liner capsule on in space to make sure that they were correct in their

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analysis and they said that based on the ground tests, they expected after the in-space tests, they would this week have a

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