NASA Starlener will not allow death yet, even after space failure in Boeing

Starliner Saga may not end yet. Despite the experimental flight, which left a crew in space, NASA did not abandon the fateful spacecraft in Boeing. Starliner may get another opportunity to transport astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS).

During a briefing on Wednesday, NASA officials revealed that they were looking to launch another test of the Boeing spacecraft before the regular crew rotation vehicle is ratified. Steve Stic, director of the NASA trade crew program, said, according to what he said SpaceNews. “So, the next trip will test all the changes we make on the car, then the next battle that goes beyond that, we really need to insert a Boeing into the crew rotation. So, this is the strategy.”

Boeing Starlener It was launched to ISS on June 5NASA Poach Pioneers carry Wilmur and Sony Williams on the first experimental flight of space vehicle. However, things did not go smoothly Five of the spacecraft defender failed on its way to the International Space StationAnd Starliner He returned to the house empty After NASA considered it inappropriate to raise the crew to the ground. The Space Agency reached a An elegant plan to restore astronauts from space By lifting a Dragon Crew spacecraft.

The Starliner test flight will be achieved from the fact that spacecraft operate properly in space after adjustments to the disrupted payment system. Boeing plans to conduct a ground for payment system this summer to review the company’s reforms. Stic said during a briefing that the subsequent trip to ISS will show the ability of the spacecraft to work in a space environment that is difficult to repeat on Earth. Once the changes are verified, NASA hopes to include the spacecraft in Starliner in the staff mission table – one is currently dominating it (although “monopoly” may be a better word) – through its Dragon Crew spacecraft.

NASA awarded Boeing and Spacex Contracts in 2014 as part of the Space Agency’s commercial crew program to develop a spacecraft capable of carrying a crew and shipping to ISS. To date, Boeing has not met at the end 4.3 billion dollars Commercial crew program Hold with NASA while its rival, Spacex, has moved 10 sets to ISS and return.

The Starliner’s Crewed Att Test trip was supposed to be the last before adopting to transfer the crew to ISS regularly, along with Spacex. However, the failed flight prompted NASA to delay the Boeing-100 Starlener’s opportunity to fly to the International Space Station. The Space Agency hoped that Starlener would launch its first crew mission by early 2025. This was not happening. Instead, NASA benefited from its most reliable commercial partner, Spacex, to launch the Crew-10 mission on March 12. Dragon’s Dragon was used to recover two Starliner astronauts from ISS.

Despite Starliner’s catastrophic journey, NASA is still ready to give its commercial partner another opportunity to carry astronauts to and from ISS so that it can have two cars as options instead of only one, and opened itself to full dependence on Spacex as its ride.