NASA to put Starliner’s thrusters through an extensive workout before next launch
Starliner returned autonomously in early September. Since then, NASA and Boeing have been reviewing data from the test flight ...
Starliner’s flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought
As it flew up toward the International Space Station last summer, the Starliner spacecraft lost four thrusters. A NASA ...
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Former NASA Engineer Says He's Invented a Thruster That Doesn't Require Propellant
Space startup Exodus Propulsion Technologies claims to have ... the Hubble Space Telescope, and the Space Shuttle — said the discovery could be a major turning point in humanity's quest to ...
Astronauts who were stuck in space, Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, say they'd fly on Boeing's Starliner again
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, who were stuck in space for more than nine months, took questions after ...
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The Story of NASA’s Jet-Propulsion Backpack
Thirty years ago, for a brief moment, a handful of space shuttle astronauts got to live ... Powered by 24 small gaseous nitrogen thrusters, the manned maneuvering unit let astronauts move ...
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SLS Core Stage MPS: more than just a...
The Main Propulsion System is designed around the Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSME) inherited from the Space Shuttle Program; for the Core Stage, SLS transformed the other launch elements from ...
NASA puts biggest rocket pieces together for Artemis II moon mission
The slow race of getting NASA’s Space Launch System rocket pieced together for next year’s Artemis II moon mission jumped a ...
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NASA shares update on investigation of Boeing Starliner’s ‘in-flight anomalies’ following astronauts' return to Earth
NASA has shared an update to the investigation of Boeing’s shuttle issues now that the stranded astronauts have returned to ...