{"id":228,"date":"2024-08-28T16:26:43","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T23:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therocketstar.com\/?p=228"},"modified":"2024-08-29T13:22:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T20:22:44","slug":"sunita-williams-and-butch-willmore-stuck-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therocketstar.com\/?p=228","title":{"rendered":"Sunita Williams and Butch   Willmore Stuck in Space."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Willmore are stuck in space. The 2 astronauts are test pilots and were given a mission to test the Boeing Starliner. The mission did not go as planned and the crew are now stuck on the International Space Station. Earlier the question was &#8220;Will it perform well?&#8221; The question now is &#8220;How will we get the astronauts home?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1769\" src=\"https:\/\/therocketstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Boeing Starliner - Wikipedia\" class=\"wp-image-230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/therocketstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/therocketstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-300x207.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/therocketstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-1024x708.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/therocketstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-768x531.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/therocketstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-1536x1061.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/therocketstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-2048x1415.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/therocketstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-1200x829.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/therocketstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image-1980x1368.jpeg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Credit to Wikipedia for this Image.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Test pilots Sunita Williams and Butch Willmore were sent up to test the capabilities of the Starliner. The spacecraft had a couple of things go wrong during the docking. The 2 main things that went wrong was 5 out of the 28 thrusters failing and a helium leak. They expected some things to go wrong, considering that this is a test flight but after a thorough analysis, NASA and Boeing deemed the spacecraft not flightworthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What comes next for the astronauts? They will be staying on the ISS for 8 months until February of 2025 when the crew 9 mission leaves the ISS. They will be returning on a crew dragon spacecraft and the Starliner will return on September 6, 2024 uncrewed. I hope for the astronauts survival and we will see what happens in February of 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Willmore are stuck in space. The 2 astronauts are test pilots and were given a mission to test the Boeing Starliner. The mission did not go as planned and the crew are now stuck on the International Space Station. Earlier the question was &#8220;Will it perform well?&#8221; The question now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[21,19,20],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-space-launches","tag-butch-willmore","tag-starliner","tag-sunita-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therocketstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therocketstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therocketstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therocketstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therocketstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/therocketstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"https:\/\/therocketstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therocketstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therocketstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therocketstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}