{"id":1492907,"date":"2024-09-29T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1492907"},"modified":"2024-09-29T17:25:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T21:25:00","slug":"spacex-launches-rescue-mission-for-two-stranded-boeing-starliner-astronauts-on-iss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/spacex-launches-rescue-mission-for-two-stranded-boeing-starliner-astronauts-on-iss\/1492907\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Launches Rescue Mission For Two Stranded Boeing Starliner Astronauts On ISS\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

SpaceX Launches Rescue Mission For Two Stranded Boeing Starliner Astronauts On ISS\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Just two weeks after SpaceX completed the historic Polaris Dawn mission<\/a>, which included the first private spacewalk and the highest orbit since the Apollo era…<\/p>\n

Views from Dragon in flight \ud83d\udc09\ud83c\udf0e<\/p>\n

During its five day mission, Dragon and the Polaris Dawn crew completed 75 orbits around Earth pic.twitter.com\/NzIFElzXAm<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 SpaceX (@SpaceX) September 27, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

… Elon Musk’s space company launched a Falcon rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Saturday to rescue the stranded Boeing Starliner astronauts on the International Space Station.<\/p>\n

Falcon 9 launches Crew-9, the first human spaceflight mission to launch from pad 40 in Florida pic.twitter.com\/BYpPPtaKqm<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 SpaceX (@SpaceX) September 28, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov are aboard the Dragon capsule and will reach the ISS on Sunday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Since NASA rotates ISS crews every six months, the stranded astronauts, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, won’t return to Earth until late February.<\/p>\n

Boeing’s first astronaut flight with the Starliner launched in June was only supposed to last a week, but multiple failures, including\u00a0thruster troubles and helium leaks, led NASA officials to deem the spacecraft too dangerous for\u00a0Williams and\u00a0Wilmore. The\u00a0crewless Starliner returned to Earth<\/a> earlier this month, landing without a problem in New Mexico.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After Saturday’s launch,\u00a0NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy said “human spaceflight” is very\u00a0“complicated and dynamic.”<\/p>\n

SpaceX noted after launch.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After today\u2019s successful launch of Crew-9, Falcon 9\u2019s second stage was disposed in the ocean as planned, but experienced an off-nominal deorbit burn. As a result, the second stage safely landed in the ocean, but outside of the targeted area.<\/p>\n

We will resume launching after we\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 SpaceX (@SpaceX) September 29, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

Meanwhile.<\/a><\/p>\n

If the rest of the year goes well, SpaceX will launch close to 90% of all mass to orbit. China will be ~6% and rest of world ~4%.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 24, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

Where is Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin?\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSun, 09\/29\/2024 – 13:25<\/span><\/p>\n

\u200bhttps:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/technology\/spacex-launches-rescue-mission-two-stranded-boeing-starliner-astronauts-iss<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SpaceX Launches Rescue Mission For Two Stranded Boeing Starliner Astronauts On ISS\u00a0 Just two weeks after SpaceX completed the historic Polaris Dawn mission, which included…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1492907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1492907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1492907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1492907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1492907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}