Raumfahrt: Versagen des „Starliner“ – Who is hiding the astronauts?

When he walked on a board of the Raumstation ISS, astronaut Suni Williams and his colleague Barry Wilmore were installed. But your space ship has problems. Inswischen is a quick way to make money – and it is still unclear, who comes back to Earth to play. NASA has found one of the kniffligest in its failed cases – and how it is now a first time, a Monday is setzt.

Williams has not traveled with his Hunden for the Flug Anfang Juni noch Zeit, Wilmore de Rasen has gemäht de Gartens, hatte es von der US-Raumfahrtbehörde Nasa zum Start. Everything is normal and also unpleasant. Do it differently.

The problem is “Starliner”. There are people who have done the test flight of the ISS with Williams and Wilmore, but they are dealing with other Helium leaks and problems with the three works. The planned flight plan for Mid June was rejected. They hang Williams and Wilmore at the Raumstation party.

Risky or zealous alternative?

NASA is aware of the exciting question: Can the two astronauts buy the “Starliner” back to Earth? In finding the results, teams from NASA and the repairers from Boeing test the tests and tests during everything and on Earth. Clarity has not brought it, is said. The teams have made a “large-scale work” decision and Nasa Manager Ken Bowersox has spoken out about the “poor discussions”.

Diskette was for both possibilities: the risky recoil with the “Starliner” or a flight with the “Crew Dragon”. For the first variant the problems to be solved with the work and helium leaks must be solved and removed from the road – which was not important for a long time.

Alternative for the “Starliner” when both astronauts are on the flight, a new, time-consuming software reconfiguration will not be necessary. The paths of the active problems from August to September shifted to the start of “Crew 9” with the “Crew Dragon” of SpaceX, then with now two statistics of four astronauts.

Williams and Wilmore work together with the Crew and with both of them Kollegen who bring Anfang 2025 to Erde zurückkehren. If there is no special design yet, with the “Starliner” man cannot even fly in the “Crew Dragon”. Wer von der ursprünglichen Crew in diesem Fall nicht mitfliegen würde, wollen NASA und SpaceX bisher nicht sagen.

“Date-based separation”

“Wir wollen diese Entscheidung nicht darauf basieren, wie wir uns fuhlen”, says NASA Manager Bowersox, “without having to worry about the data”. Letztlich obliege de Entscheidung NASA chief Bill Nelson. If you place concrete via Online Platform X, you will have priority in securing the astronauts.

Williams and Wilmore would not be able to participate in the ISS einstellen in the future. With the “Starliner” he would be at his peak in September, with the “Crew Dragon” in February – in that autumn his work would become a new month.

The 58-year-old and 61-year-old astronauts have never been back on the ISS and they have both been in all sorts of situations while NASA is still busy. He said NASA manager Steve Stich said everything was up in the air and it was all difficult.

More Lebensmittel was broken – and more Schlüpfer

“If a test flight is a guy who started on the Möglichkeit, it’s possible longer,” says Nasa manager Joel Montalbano. “If it’s good, you can integrate the rest of the crew and know for sure what your other crew members are like. Of course, people and everything that has to do with Crew-Mitglieder and their families can be erased. If you’re a professional astronaut, you can do more.”

Williams and Wilmore see a big Extra-Hilfe on the board of the ISS, while the Nasa is still working – and they are both working with Extra Resources with Food and Hygiene-Articles. This will not last longer than the higher radiation load due to a longer runtime.

What about the “Starliner”?

If you thank the astronauts: I am in the background one of the ‘Starliner’ lovers. Through Boeing’s air and space flights in NASA’s space and the launch of its own long-term astronauts to the ISS they bring – as an alternative to the “Crew Dragon” of the space company SpaceX of Tech billionaire Elon Musk, which will continue its all year round.

If the teilweise is part of the Raumfahrzeug, a haircut for the Besatzung and a Service module is best, said the ultimate crisis: Beim first unmanned Test kam das Raumschiff 2019 gar nicht uit erst an der ISS an, ein zweiter glückte black 2022, but then häuften sich die Problem solving problems in problem solving.

Many people want to get an idea of ​​alternative transportation systems, concrete NASA Manager Bowersox. The problem is solved, “and then I see a radiant force for the “Starliner””. How Boeing concretes more and more – so who gives Bowersox a “greater response for the Boeing Team”. Zugleich told the manager: “The answer must remain in the data.”

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