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Boeing’s Starliner lands on Earth – without its astronauts

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft landed in a New Mexico desert late on Friday, months after its original departure date and without the two astronauts it carried when it launched in early June.

Starliner returned to Earth seemingly without a hitch, a Nasa live stream showed, nailing the critical final phase of its mission.

The spacecraft re-entered Earth’s atmosphere around 11pm ET at orbital speeds of roughly 27,400km/h (17,025mph). About 45 minutes later, it deployed a series of parachutes to slow its descent and inflated a set of airbags moments before touching down at the White Sands Space Harbor, an arid desert in New Mexico.

Bonesince1997 ,

👽 Hi

superkret ,

Still was the right decision not to chance it.
But I bet the astronauts wish they’d been on it now.

FuglyDuck ,
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and that could have potentially been what caused to crash and burn or burn and crash. choices choices.

anyhow… I’m thinking they want to be home right now, but maybe not riding on a boeing.

Thorry84 ,

Someone who’s worked their entire life to not only become trained as an astronaut, but actually go on a space mission. What do you think they prefer? Going home today or staying another few months on an actual space station?

superkret ,

I think they’d prefer going home. The mission they came up for is long done, they may have important events in their life or their family’s lives scheduled for after the planned return, and staying up for months increases the chances of long term damage to their bodies.

I imagine they’re pretty bored by now.

MartianSands ,

They certainly won’t be bored. Astronauts time on the ISS is a precious resource, and work will have been found for them even if they weren’t expected to be there

FlyingSquid ,
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I keep saying the same thing and get a bunch of people replying things like, “how do you know they want to see their kids?”

FireRetardant ,

To be fair, I’ve met some absent parents that genuinely don’t care if they see their kids again, and unfortnately it is possible for someone like that to be capable of being an astronaut.

FlyingSquid ,
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Sure, but I think that’s a different argument from “they won’t take seeing their kids again over months in space when it was supposed to be an eight-day mission because they’re in space.”

Annoyed_Crabby ,

0 gravity and living in an enclosed space take a huge toll on one physical and mental being, obviously they wanna go home today, but i bet they also wanna go home in one piece

EarthBoundMisfit ,

Right choice, play it safe. Glad it landed safely, competition in space is a good thing. Better than a monopoly.

9tr6gyp3 ,

Fucking piece of shit Boeing. Cant believe they would land a god damn spacecraft safely back on Earth. We need to gut them and give all our money to Elon. /s

vladmech ,

Dang. You got ‘em.

9tr6gyp3 ,

You know the Eloners were praying for it to explode.

FlyingSquid ,
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You do know that “let’s get private corporations out of spaceflight entirely” might be something some people would like, yes?

HK65 ,

I would be fine with “at least don’t let them self-regulate”, same with aerospace.

Zipitydew ,

Tons of them on r/space. They and the people who have become Boeing experts since February.

ravhall ,

Boeing killed John Barnett

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