The long-delayed test flight is the first with astronauts aboard
Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore, left, and Suni Williams pose for a portrait inside the vestibule between the forward port on the International Space Station's Harmony module and Boeing's Starliner spacecraft on June 13.When two veteran NASA astronauts blasted off on a test drive of Boeing’s new capsule, they expected to head home from the International Space Station in a week or so.
. Boeing will eventually join SpaceX in ferrying crews to and from the space station for NASA.NASA wants more time to analyze problems in the spacecraft’s propulsion system, which is used to manoeuvre in flight. The propulsion system is attached to the capsule, but it doesn’t come back to Earth for inspection. It is ditched during re-entry and burns up.
The space agency also said it didn’t want the departure to conflict with spacewalks. This week’s spacewalk was called off after water leaked from an astronaut’s spacesuit while she was still inside the orbiting lab. Tuesday’s spacewalk was still on the schedule.Five of the capsule’s 28 thrusters went down during docking, as the capsule closed in on the space station. All but one thruster was restarted, and they worked during a later test firing, NASA said.
“So far, we don’t see any scenario where Starliner is not going to be able to bring Butch and Suni home,” Stich said last week.The capsule can remain at the space station for 45 days or longer if needed, Boeing said. In the meantime, mission managers continue to analyze the thruster trouble and helium leaks so they can resolve the problems before the next flight.
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