Stuck in space
The Slow Newscast
Alice Sandelson
4.6 • 894 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In June 2024, Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore went into space. It was expected to last just over a week. Instead, by the time they'll return, it'll have been more than eight months.
This is the story of how two great American institutions - Boeing and NASA - failed them.
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| 0:41.9 | I'm Giles Wittell, and this is the slow newscast from Tautus. |
| 0:51.3 | The sound quality in what you're about to hear isn't great, but we should probably make allowances. |
| 0:57.5 | The first speaker is in a confined space in orbit. |
| 1:01.4 | It's funny I both have done some manual maneuvering, and it is precise, much more so even than the simulator. |
| 1:08.8 | I mean, stopping exactly on a number you want to stop on. |
| 1:13.1 | The precision is pretty amazing. And it is just an amazing, amazing spacecraft put together, |
| 1:19.8 | going to do a magnificent job. That's Butch Wilmore, U.S. Navy test pilot, NASA astronaut, proud father and husband, and before that, |
| 1:30.9 | captain of his college football team. |
| 1:33.1 | Butch and Sunny have made their arrival. |
| 1:35.9 | Lots of cheering here in the room, big hugs. |
| 1:40.0 | Sunny William coming through in her blue flight suit. |
| 1:43.8 | And followed shortly behind by Commander of Starliner. |
| 1:47.5 | Sunny Williams is also a Navy test pilot and NASA astronaut. |
| 1:52.8 | They don't catch her speaking on this part of the Boeing promo clip, |
| 1:56.3 | mainly because she isn't. |
| 1:57.4 | She's punching the air and dancing in zero gravity just thrilled to be in space |
| 2:02.4 | again. That was all on June 5th this year. Wilmore and Williams had just accomplished the first |
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