Bosses regret talking up mission duration as Capsule's lifetime extended to 90 days
The crew of the Boeing Starliner will spend the summer aboard the International Space Station as NASA and Boeing refused to set a return date for the craft.on July 25, Mark Nappi, Vice President and Program Manager of Boeing's Commercial Crew Program, commented on the emphasis placed on the eight-day mission duration."It's my regret that we didn't just say we're going to stay up there until we get everything done that we want to," he said.
The team has been trying to understand the thruster issues experienced during the docking of the Starliner to the ISS and has been executing tests on the ground to get to the bottom of the problems. Over the weekend, Stich said that the ground team planned to fire 27 of Starliner's thrusters in pulses to check performance is as expected.
Boeing's Starliner set for extended stay at the ISS as engineers on Earth try to recreate thruster issuesAdditional hatch operations on a Boeing vehicle – but this time it's StarlinerStich said:"It's been six weeks since we last checked the helium system … so we'll pressurize manifold by manifold and then hot-fire the thrusters. Then we'll get a chance to look at the helium leak rates and verify that the system is stable.
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