Image: Starliner Fires Thrusters

Description: The Boeing Starliner spacecraft undocked from the forward port of the Harmony module of the International Space Station Sept. 6, for a landing at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams launched aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft on June 5 for its first crewed flight, arriving at the space station on June 6. As Starliner approached the orbiting laboratory, NASA and Boeing identified helium leaks and experienced issues with the spacecraft reaction control thrusters. For the safety of the astronauts, NASA announced on Aug. 24 that Starliner will return to Earth from the station without a crew. Wilmore and Williams will remain aboard the station and return home in February 2025 aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft with two other crew members assigned to NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission
Title: Starliner Fires Thrusters
Credit: https://images.nasa.gov/details/iss071m262502144_NASA's_Boeing_Crew_Flight_Test_Undocking
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