(7 Sep 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: MUST CREDIT NASA
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NASA – MUST CREDIT NASA
Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas – 7 September 2024
1. Wide of NASA briefing
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Joe Montalbano, deputy associate administrator, NASA Space Operations Mission Directorate:
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"NASA and Boeing safely returned the Starliner spacecraft, just after 11 p.m. central time to the White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico. After spending approximately three months attached to the International Space Station. It’s great to have the Starliner home. A safe and successful landing was exactly what we wanted. It was uncrewed. Everybody sees the systems work is exactly what we wanted."
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Steve Stich, Manager, NASA Commercial Crew Programme:
"It was a great day today to return Starliner. It was great to have a successful undock the orbit and landing of the vehicle. We’re really excited to have Calypso back on the ground. You know, Suni told the ground team ‘You’ve got this – bring Calypso back,’ and that’s what they did tonight. I am thrilled for our Boeing team and all of our colleagues that work this mission across the country. On the NASA team and the Boeing team. They’ve put a lot of heart and soul into this mission over many years, and it’s a testament to those people that we got the vehicle back safely today."
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Steve Stich, Manager, NASA Commercial Crew Programme:
"It’s really great to get the spacecraft back and then we’ll start the next step. So been talking to the Boeing team already about next steps. We want to get in to the spacecraft and start working on the helium system. You know, we talked about we know we have a seal that we’ve got to go replace on the flanges on the RCS thrusters. We need to upgrade that material to make it hypergolic compatible, and then maybe a little bigger size. We’ll do that. Boeing has already formed teams to look at the the changes that need to be made for Starliner One."
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Steve Stich, Manager, NASA Commercial Crew Programme:
"Yeah, I think it’s always hard to have that retrospective look. You know, we made the decision to have an uncrewed flight based on what we knew at the time and based on our knowledge of the thrusters and based on the modeling that we had. And we, you know, if we’d have had a model that would have predicted what we saw tonight perfectly. Yeah, it looks like an easy decision to go say we could have had a crewed flight, but we didn’t have that. We didn’t have a way to take that White Sands testing and anchor it in a model."
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Steve Stich, Manager, NASA Commercial Crew Programme:
"So I think we made the right decision to not have Butch (Wilmore) and Suni (Williams) on board. It’s awfully it’s awfully hard for the team. It’s hard for me when we sit here and have a successful ending to to to be in that position. But you know, it was a test flight and we didn’t have confidence with the certainty of the thruster performance. And that’s really what led us to to choose to have the uncrewed test flight."
7. Wide of briefing
STORYLINE:
As Boeing’s troubled capsule returns to Earth empty, NASA officials say it was the "right decision" to have it unmanned.
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams launched on June 5 aboard Starliner for the agency’s Boeing Crewed Flight Test from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
The flight on June 5 was the first time astronauts launched aboard the Starliner.
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