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The NASA guy, Steve Stich, still hopes Boeing can get those astronauts back. But “We don’t have a major announcement today relative to a return date,” said Steve Stich, the program manager for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. (They’ve been up 50 days on an 8-day mission.) pic.twitter.com/zvTZXc8a2f
— Bev Harris (@BevHarrisWrites) July 25, 2024
It’s strange that “trapped astronauts” is not a bigger story, no?
I guess they’re fine. But they will not be fine indefinitely.
Two Nasa astronauts on Boeing’s Starliner capsule will remain at the International Space Station with no official return date yet, Nasa and Boeing officials said on Thursday morning, as engineers continue to examine the technical problems with the spacecraft.
Test pilots Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams first departed for the station roughly seven weeks ago, in early June, on a test mission that was meant to last about a week. But the capsule’s undocking was delayed because of faulty thrusters and small helium leaks that raised safety concerns.
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On Thursday, Nasa and Boeing officials said they were not ready to announce a return date, and that the pilots would remain at the space station until the engineers finish working on and examining the issues with the capsule.
“We’ll come home when we’re ready,” Steve Stich, Nasa’s commercial crew program manager said in the press conference, according to the Associated Press. He also acknowledged that backup options are under review, including using other capsules to get the astronauts home safely, which he said was a top priority.
So is part of the situation here that they don’t want to ask Russia to help?
Russia would help.
That would be the worst optics ever, to have the US unable to get their own people back because their technology is so shit that they’re forced to ask the Russians for help.
The optics are already terrible, however, and just ending the problem might be better than whatever is happening now.
What exactly is happening now?
This was the first use of this Boeing pod, the Starliner, which was announced in 2010 and ended up going $1.5 billion over-budget during delays. Apparently it was just… built badly.
It’s sort of ridiculous that it would not have been tested, unmanned. These are engineering failures. The thing was never going to work. “Faulty thrusters” is not a minor problem. Thrusters are a core component of the machine.
