Boeing’s Starliner is safely landing in the US

December 27, 2019December 27, 2019 admin 447 Views

The maiden flight of the Starliner the Boeing may not go according to plan, having failed to reach the ISS , but Boeing’s engineers and NASA wanted the capsule back to extract useful data. Thus, the Starliner landed safely in the New Mexico desert in the US, at the same time acquiring the title of the first American-made manned capsule to land. Older missions like Mercury, Gemini and Apollo have all sunk in the sea.

LANDING CONFIRMED

The #Starliner spacecraft safely touched down at 7:58am ET at @WSMissileRange in New Mexico with a bulleye landing. This marks the 1st time an American-made, human-rated capsule has landed on land. Watch our live coverage: https://t.co/MAYPLDF7R7 pic.twitter.com/66owuQDsVB
— NASA (@NASA) December 22, 2019

We’re live with the #Starliner landing at @WSMissileRange. Our landing and recovery team, @USArmy and @NASA teams are on the ground. Flight controllers and engineers are at Boeing Mission Control at @NASAKennedy and @NASA_Johnson Mission Control. https://t.co/a4VP2oAYep
— Boeing Space (@BoeingSpace) December 22, 2019

To be honest, Boeing is not in a position to propose a manned flight yet, until we can see all the facts. – Jim Chilton, Vice President of Boeing Space & Launch

The program predicts a manned flight in 2020, but by then Boeing and NASA will have to do more testing, one of which will be a rocket abandonment test.

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