Slow Burn: How Starliner’s crewed test flight went awry

September 4, 2024

Slow Burn: How Starliner’s crewed test flight went awryWhen NASA and Boeing officials walked into the briefing room at the Kennedy Space Center on June 5, they were all smiles.
owever, that would be the last time there were many smiles at a briefing about Starliner. The next day, Starliner docked with the station, but not before experiencing more helium leaks and problems with several of its thrusters. What initially appeared to be a minor issue evolved, over the next two and a half months, into NASA’s biggest human spaceflight safety crisis since the shuttle Columbia accident more than two decades ago. Kennedy Space Center to the ISS Credit: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a1/3c/0e/a13c0e2fda57145459b22c856382f0d7.jpg More details »

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