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Astronauts Recount the Harrowing Moment
Boeing’s Starliner Almost Doomed Them

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Posted By: ladydawgfan, 4/2/2025 4:52:59 PM

In a candid interview, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams shared their experiences during the Boeing Starliner’s first crewed flight which left them stranded in space for nine months. According to Wilmore, thruster failures almost doomed the pair to a fate far worse than an extended stay aboard the International Space Station. The inaugural crewed mission of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) in June 2024 was marked by a series of thruster failures that left NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams in a precarious position. In a recent interview, the astronauts provided a detailed account of the harrowing events that transpired during the flight,

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 4/2/2025 5:09:48 PM (No. 1925570)
Apollo 13 re-visited. Consider the Crew 10 mission as a successful failure. In real terms, Wilmore and Williams would simply have starved to death while in orbit. Glad that Wilmore and Williams are here to talk about it.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: bpl40 4/2/2025 5:54:44 PM (No. 1925610)
Thank DEI.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: DVC 4/2/2025 6:25:14 PM (No. 1925638)
There are many thrusters, and they are typically grouped in sets, aiming 90 degrees to each other. You can fire pairs to spin about a desired axis, but if one of the needed pair is not working, now, instead of spinning exactly around the desired axis, you get a weird rotation/tumble motion, spinning about two axes at the same time. Having the kind of precise control needed for docking and to align the spacecraft for re-entry requires a minimum number of functioning thrusters. There are redundancies, but if you lose all of the ones that are pointing in a particular direction.....you are screwed and will tumble out of control. Scary stuff to be losing thrusters like this, no doubt. Like the controls of an aircraft not working correctly, and you need to land.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: MickTurn 4/2/2025 7:37:34 PM (No. 1925696)
Boeing stuff is now fully built with DEI Hires. What could POSSIBLY GO WORNG????????
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