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‘Not stranded in space’: how Nasa lost control of Boeing Starliner
Technical issues and poor comms led many to believe two astronauts are lost in space, but a return date is imminent
The saga represents more of a crisis in communications management than any failure of Starliner, which after all is an experimental vehicle suffering similar teething troubles to any preceding generation of spacecraft, from the mighty Apollo moon rockets of the 1960s to the space shuttle, and last year’s “ rapid unscheduled disassembly ” of Elon Musk’s futuristic Starship. Announcements in recent days from Nasa and Boeing, partners in the Starliner project as part of the US space agency’s commercial crew program, suggest a return date for the capsule, and the astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, is finally imminent. With Starliner, teams of ground engineers at Nasa’s White Sands facility in New Mexico spent weeks recreating and working through the thruster issues, and Williams and Wilmore boarded the docked capsule last weekend to conduct an in-orbit hot fire test of its propulsion systems.
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