(25 Jul 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: MUST CREDIT NASA
NASA – MUST CREDIT NASA
Houston – 25 July 2024
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Steve Stich, NASA’s commercial crew program manager:
"We don’t have a major announcement today relative to, to a return date. We’re making great progress, but we’re just not quite ready to do that."
++WHITE FLASH++
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Steve Stich, NASA’s commercial crew program manager:
"The team is doing great. The joint, Boeing and NASA team is doing well. They’re working, side by side with each other every day. We’re methodically looking, working through the data, and, we’ll come home when we’re ready."
++ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
Already more than a month late getting back, two NASA astronauts will remain at the International Space Station until engineers finish working on problems plaguing their Boeing capsule, officials said Thursday.
Test pilots Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were supposed to visit the orbiting lab for about a week and return in mid-June, but thruster failures and helium leaks on Boeing’s new Starliner capsule prompted NASA and Boeing to keep them up longer.
NASA’s commercial crew program manager Steve Stich said mission managers were not ready to announce a return date.
“We’ll come home when we’re ready,” said Stich.
Stich acknowledged that backup options are under review.
"Our focus today," he said "is to return Butch and Suni on Starliner."
Engineers last week completed testing on a spare thruster in the New Mexico desert and will rip it apart to try to understand what went wrong during docking. Five thrusters failed as the capsule approached the space station on June 6, a day after liftoff. Four have since been reactivated.
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