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NASA astronauts voice confidence that Boeing Starliner will bring them home
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7/11/2024
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A mission only scheduled for eight days now rolls into its fifth week, as the Boeing Starliner's
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return journey has been repeatedly postponed due to leaks and thruster failures.
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Astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams are confident they can return home after testing.
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In the meantime, their spirits are high aboard the International Space Station.
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We've been thoroughly busy up here, integrated right into the crew,
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and every about once a week we get to jump into Starliner and talk to our control team there.
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The system that enables the capsule to back away from the space station
00:36
into the Earth's atmosphere is faulty.
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Boeing have branded this moment as advantageous,
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a chance to do further checks while the craft is still in orbit.
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This is the world of test. This is a tough business that we're in.
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Human spaceflight is not easy in any regime, and there have been multiple issues with every
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spacecraft that's ever been designed, and that's the nature of what we do.
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That mantra you've heard, failure is not an option, that's why we are staying here now.
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We did have some degradation in our thrusters, and we know that,
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and that's why we're staying, because we're going to test it. That's what we do.
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A year behind schedule and $1.5 billion over budget,
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this NASA Boeing mission had experienced technical issues before it left Earth.
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After multiple incidents and two high-profile crashes in recent years,
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Starliner, Boeing's first manned expedition, was pegged as a reputation rebuilder.
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With no timeline for return,
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the astronauts might have to jump aboard SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft to get home.
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