Boeing's astronaut capsule has arrived at the International Space Station in a critical repeat test flight.
Only a test dummy was aboard the capsule for Friday's docking, a huge achievement for Boeing after years of false starts. – With only a test dummy aboard, Boeing’s astronaut capsule pulled up and parked at the International Space Station for the first time Friday, a huge achievement for the company after years ofWith Starliner’s arrival, NASA finally realizes its longtime effort to have crew capsules from competing U.S. companies flying to the space station.
“Today marks a great milestone,” NASA astronaut Bob Hines radioed from the space station. “Starliner is looking beautiful on the front of the station,” he added.flew in space, it never got anywhere near the station, ending up in the wrong orbit.and docked at the station 25 hours later. The automated rendezvous went off without a major hitch, despite a pair of thrusters that failed during liftoff.
NASA wants redundancy when it comes to the Florida-based astronaut taxi service. Administrator Bill Nelson said Boeing’s long road with Starliner underscores the importance of having two types of crew capsules. U.S. astronauts were stuck riding Russian rockets once the shuttle program ended, until SpaceX’s first crew flight in 2020.Boeing’s first Starliner test flight in 2019 was plagued by software errors that cut the mission short and could have doomed the spacecraft.
Once Starliner was within 10 miles of the space station, Boeing flight controllers in Houston could see the space station through the capsule's cameras. “We're waving. Can you see us?” joked Hines.The gleaming white-with-blue-trim capsule hovered 33 feet from the station for close to two hours — considerably longer than planned — as flight controllers adjusted its docking ring and ensured everything else was in order.
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