nasa can get things done. sometimes that confidence overrules what you know it will actually take to get it down. part of it is, and cathy spoke to this earlier, is the funding screen. if you're not sure about your funding stream in the near term. and finally making sure you re continue to grow the workforce with the nasa and the industry to support the work you are doing. so there are a number of challenges to nasa being able to get these projects done on time and at the promised amount. >> well, if we assume for a moment that congress is not going to change in the mood is not moving differently than it did half a century ago, what should we demand that nasa do in order to deliver the rest of the artemis ii and artemis iii on time and with no greater overruns and we have already experienced? what would be the steps that congress would be required to take? >> one would be locking the agency down and to making lifecycle cost and scheduled commitments. we understand that the world is complex. but it is incredibl

nasa has a lot on its plate. the future of low earth orbit and the international space station operations in 2030, the need for critical and costly vehicles, the transition to the use of future commercial space stations and their readiness to come online. key considerations on the sample return are on the horizon and that's what we learned last week from nasa and the annual assessment of the global temperature. we must continue the measurement, observations needed to understand and mitigate the impact of the climate crisis. in short, nasa is a multi agency and we can't lose sight of the benefits and challenges of the balance of the portfolio. but supporting balance will be made any easier by the dysfunctional appropriations process that i think threatens to undermine what we know is best for growing our economy in a sustainable way, investments in our entity and innovations. i am excited about the move to mars and i look forward to working with our chairman with the administration and stakeholders on building a s

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nasa can get things done. sometimes the confidence getting things done overrules what you know is going to take to actually get it done. part of it, and we spoke to this earlier, the unstable funding stream. it is hard to plan in the long term if you are not sure about your funding stream in the near term. finally, making sure you continue to grow the workforce within nasa and within the industry to continue to support the work you are doing. there are a number of challenges to nasa being able to get the projects done on time and at the promised amount. >> if we assume for a moment that congress wasn't going going to change, we assume for a moment that the moon isn't moving differently then it did a half-century ago, what should we demand that nasa do in order to deliver the rest of the artemis-2 and artemis-3 on time and with no greater overruns then we have already experienced? what would be the steps congress is required to take? >> in my view, locking the agency down and making likes to follow -- lifecycle

a lot of people, apollo is nasa. for people in my generation for many people we have a huge oral history project for many years. folks who participated in apollo. that's really what they wanted to focus on. when we would talk with them about their space shuttle years, for instance, it was kind of like, oh, you know, that was the space shuttle. but let me tell you about apollo, because that was amazing that we got to go to the moon and we had all this great opportunity. we were so young. we were working toward this goal, this presidential goal, and we achieved it. and i felt like the space shuttle was kind of a letdown for for some of the guys. not for all the guys. i mean, the space shuttle was our longest lasting program. jennifer ross-nazzal gemini was the first manned space program. mercury. mercury. mercury, yes. yeah. that was our first program. we actually were not originally based out of houston. that was the space task group that was based at the langley research center. there was a decision made in 1961 to b

and so when you're dealing with nasa astronauts, nasa just says, hey, there was uncertainty, there was risk. why risk it when we have another spacecraft, spacex's crew dragon, that's tried and true very tested at this point, we could put, put butch and sunny on even if it's many, many months away, laura, i mean, a poster child for erring on the side of caution to see what works, the precision of all of this as you describe it, is so fast and i'm going to watch and see what happens here. kristin fisher stand by for us. we're going to check back in with you in a few minutes. when may get ready to start moving towards that re-entry phase that you just described? >> well, in political news tonight, new york judge, juan merchan, postponing donald trump's sentencing for his hush money criminal conviction. >> minds you it's been rescheduled not once, but twice. in fact, this time, trump and frankly, the rest of us are going to have to wait until after the november election to know what that sentence it may be. judge merchan seemed eager to avoid any partisan backlash in the final stretch of t

great it was nasa was startling. well on track to now finally, after these years of delays and boeing being billion more than $1 billion over budget on this spacecraft that it now appeared that nasa was well on its way to having to spacecraft's capable are taking its astronauts to and from the international space station of course, no one could have known at that post-launch press conference room, just how soon that backup system would be tested. but now that's exactly what's happening and it's why nasa was able to take but this safe from the safer call and not take really much risk at all or with nasa astronauts, butch wilmore and sunny williams and allow but jim to fly back on spacex's crew dragon, show them to you and 13 looks like you're beginning of this process is beginning to take shape starliner capsule's will make its way back to earth than just to remind our viewers face station kristen, the crew members, sonny williams and butch wilmore, and they were supposed to be up there for just a few days down. and n

so, but nasa is taking nasa along with spacex is taking measures to get suits to the station we've got six months to do that so they will have appropriate suits to come home and they took the measure of taking two members of the crew-9 flight that should be launching here toward the end of this month, so that they'll have seats for bundchen sunday to come back as a part of the crew-9 crew when they return and when you look at the starliner, which spent six hours coming back to earth from the international space station today what was the riskiest part of that journey back to earth? >> you know that some re-entry re-entry the de-orbit burn is always a risky part because if you don't get it right, you're not on the proper trajectory for going for re-entering the atmosphere and there's always a chance to the vehicle will burn up or skip out. so that's that's the number one risk. and i think when the when the people in houston and at boeing, we're thinking about the decision to whether or not to bring the crew in that was not a small risk. you know, if the thrusters did not work correctly

in this case, boeing was urging nasa that it was safe to fly butch and sunny home and nasa resistance saying it was going to err on the side of caution. i think that the management at nasa, having experienced columbia, the lawsuit columbia 2003 and of course challenge at night 1080 1086, the administrator, bill nelson, having flown on the shuttle right before that challenge remission, all of that was processed into this decision and the decision was made not to take the risks. so i think it says something about where nasa is and how this evolved and talk to us about this collaboration between nasa and boeing because this was a mission that was years behind schedule, more than $1 billion over budget. >> what does this say about boeing's future relationship? we've nasser in space yeah. >> i mean, boeing has been there, lynda since the beginning. if you look at the company and all the companies did as acquired over the years, it's been involved in every program that nasa has flown, including the space station itself. but this one was different in the sense that it was a fixed-price contr

>> it started when nasa was established. a lot of people tend to think about nasa as and playing only technicians and engineers, scientists, astronauts, flight controllers those kind of things. the divers, pilots, secretaries, a wide variety of people, an organization that requires a lot of different people to function. and so i decided that it would be interesting and useful to people to realize from the beginning t to talk about how occupations for women change overov time. we had done great oral history and i wanted to include women who were secretaries, so we have interviews of those that worked in the astronaut office for instance and there's some wonderful stories there, some stories with women who were mathematicians who went on to become engineers, women who were center directors, in the senior leadership of course. you can't have a look att this space center without talking about the astronauts because that is where astronauts are housed in the people that work in training and science and nursing and all sorts of di

i'm nasa, she's nasa, she's navy pilot astronaut wings as well. these wings represent honor, courage and commitment. nasa, our core values within the astronaut core at flat operations johnson space center, we have core values that we standby and there's many of those. many oft those are biblical principles. i can monoup in one word and that's resiliency, we are tasked and we learn and we train to handle all types of situations and this is not just at nasa, this is something sunny and i have done for an entire career and this is something that, you know, she doesn't have children but she has some -- some nieces and nephews and i know she instills them the same thing as i instill in my daughters, my wife and i, you have to go with what the good lord gives you whatever that it is, whatever comes by, what can we do to make this better and that's our mindset right now. i don't look back and say, oh, my, this or that, i don't and that's not, you know, it's not -- it's not what we do at nasa. i think it's more who we are and we deal with all types of dif

suni wore a nasa shirt to represent nasa, who we are with. i wore my navy aviator pilot astronaut wings shirt. these wings represent honor, courage, and commitment. nasa, our core values within the astronaut corps and flight operations directory -- at the space center, we have core values that we stand by, and there's many of those. many of those are biblical principles. i could sum it up in one word, and that is resiliency. we are tasked and we learn and we train to handle all types of situations, and this is not just at nasa. this is something suni and i have done for an entire career. she does not have children, but she has some nieces and nephews, and i know she instilled in them the same thing i instilled in my daughters, my wife and i, and that is to be resilient. you have to go with what the good lord gives you, whatever that is, whatever is allowed, whatever comes by. i don't look back and say whatever, coda, shutter. i look back and say, going forward, what can we do to make this better? that is our mindset right now. it is more just

let's speak to keith cowing who's a former nasa engineer and the editor of nasa watch.y i had seen reports that the re—entry a number of hours ago was a success but there were a couple of snags, can you clarify? hat of snags, can you clarify? not that i am _ of snags, can you clarify? not that i am aware _ of snags, can you clarify? not that i am aware of, _ of snags, can you clarify? iirrt that i am aware of, there may have been a briefing when i went to sleep. it worked nearly flawless, when you get a spacecraft that goes through all these steps as perfectly as it did, i can understand why they are thinking i wish we could have had them inside. how will the ash notes coin: ? sunny has been up there before, is used to doing this. goes with the flow, as is birch. you know you might not come home right away. they are smiling every time i see them, i assume it is going well. every time i see them, i assume it is going well-— it is going well. you are a former nasa _ it is going well. you are a former nasa engineer, i it is going well. you are a - former nasa engineer, boe

liftoff of the atlas five rocket carrying nasa astronauts.williams. >> boeing's starliner capsule lifting off in june on its historic maiden voyage. the first crew to man the boeing vessel docking at the international space station. suni williams danced in celebration as she and butch wilmore glided aboard, welcomed with cheers and hugs from the seven waiting iss crew members. lots of. but houston quickly noted some problems, flagging helium leaks and issues with starliner's control thrusters. >> the team is also looking at that thruster to see could that particular seal survive the rest of the flight? >> unexpected repairs in space reminiscent of one hollywood version, with matt damon playing an astronaut stranded on mars in the martian. >> i have no way to contact nasa, and even if i could, it's going to be four years until a manned mission can reach me. >> but the real-life astronauts learned that their eight day mission would become an eight month odyssey. worried about the safety of the starliner? nasa announced that williams and wilmore

nasa astronauts who are stuck on — question. nasa astronauts who are stuck on the _ question.n the international space station will be holding their space court in 15 minutes' time or so and will be listening to that live and how did they end up on the space station. the mission pilot and the mission commander, they left for the international space station and the mission is to make sure that people can safely fly to the space station and it was intended to last week but now, they're expected to return home in february and williams is the first two astronauts sent into space by boeing which has a 4.2 billion contract with nasa as part of the move to privatise space flight in the us. let us speak to the planetary science specialist at the research open university. thank you so much forjoining me and there were only meant to be there for eight days and now they're going to be stuck and i know nasais going to be stuck and i know nasa is not going to like me using that word until february. how are they going to sustain themselves? to the evan of supplies? how does it work? this su

the dod and nasa were it. most of us work -- both of us were convinced that there needed to be a third force injected in this. there was going to be innovation. it would break the stalemate. the commercial industry was something that had to be encouraged in order to break out of what was kind of a stasis in the governmental view of things. by the way, the berlin wall had just barely fallen and we were trying to figure out what the end of the soviet union meant. lots of other exciting things going on. we knew we needed something other than just government bureaucracy. richard, can i call you up to do the keynote? [applause] >> well, i would like to begin by thanking scott for filling the room with people who can give my remarks. there's probably 10 of the world's experts on the commercial space industry in the room today. to begin with, in the spring looking at ocean temperature and a million other factors, the weather service made a prediction this would be the busiest hurricane season of the year. if you're e

sonny war and nasa sure to represent nasa and nasa sure to represent mesa and nasa sure to representof us, these wings represent honour, courage and commitment. nasa our core values within the mesa astronaut corps at the johnson space centre we have core values we stand by and there are many of those. many of those are biblical principles. i can summon up in one word, resiliency. we are tasked in we learn and we train to handle all types of situations. this is notjust all types of situations. this is not just at all types of situations. this is notjust at nasa. this is something sonny and i have done for our entire career and this is something, she does not have children, but she has nieces and nephews and i know she instills in them the thing i instills in them the thing i instill in my daughters, my wife and die and that is to be resilient. you have to go whatever the good lord gives you, whatever is allowed, whatever comes by. i did not look back and say would've, could've, should've, i look back saying, going forward, how can i fix, what can we do to make this better. that is our

roscosmos offered to help nasa, but they did not answer either yes or no, but nasa reports that thosestuck in orbit are in a great mood and are passionate about their work, they have everything they need. for an eight-month stay in space. in july, special things were delivered. so, the conclusions: boeing is in big trouble. an attempt to raise the company's reputation to cosmic heights has failed miserably. a decade and a half of development, apparently, down the drain. secondly, his main competitor - musk's company spacex will pick up the stranded astronauts from orbit on the ship and will probably receive the next delivery contracts. and the most important thing is to save his americans. only in films in which competitors are portrayed as blockheads, in reality the superpower country turns out to be a rather vulnerable target at the first force majeure, and apparently it's time for someone to come down to earth, you can't go far on pr alone if you are an unreal superpower, as they used to say abraham lincoln, the 16th president of the united states, who abolished slavery, you can fo

¿tÚ familia quÉ te dijo cuando le dijiste "mamÁ, papÁ, familia, voy a trabajar en la nasa"?a que envÍes un mensaje a jÓvenes que estÁn soÑando con estar en tu posiciÓn, tambiÉn trabajar en la nasa o cumplir sus sueÑos, cuÁl es tu mensaje para ellos hasta ahora? >> les dirÍa que no se desanimen por los obstÁculos muchas veces la gente desiste de sus sueÑos precisamente por las cosas que viven o las cosas que le pasa. de las cosas que mÁs me ha servido es la resiliencia, trabajar tambiÉn en el balance en mi vida, y dedicaciÓn, paciencia. siempre va ahaber desafÍos, la clave es mantener el enfoque y la clave es aprender. borja: no me queda mÁs que felicitarte nuevamente y decirte que estÁ mina provechos bien esta oportunidad. no te olvides de disfrutar, sobre todo de celebrar sus grandes Éxitos.

nasa says both astronauts are in good spirits.ld a press conference shortly after — and told us more about the mission. let's take a listen. happy to report starliner did really well today in the undock, deorbit and landing sequence. you know, we use the nasa docking system for the second time on the mission to to undock from the space station. that system performed really well. it's a derivative system will be used for orion down the road. so it was good to pave the way for orion as well. the spacecraft executed a nominal breakout sequence, the first time we've used that to back away from the station. we backed out to about five metres and then did a series of about 12 burns using the service module forward jets. and then we opened, after that sequence of manoeuvres, we ended up opening at about 22km per rev away from the space station. all those thrusters did really well through that sequence. no problems at all. dr megan argo is a senior lecturer in astrophysics at the university of central lancashire. she told me more about th

i also keep calling audio, who's the editor at nasa, watch dot com. why not? so i was not convinced by that argument. the good thing about this is that they have these long discussions back in the earlier days of nasa or some decisions were made. because yeah, we got to go to the mission and we lost several groups and we had some other your mishaps. so on one hand, it's a good sign that finally, somebody says, you know what, even though you're telling me you'd say, i'm just going to err on the side of safety. it's not a bad thing to do. and they really went through this methodically. so i cannot fault them to that. but everything that led up to this, quite frankly, i don't think it's spacecraft should have been launched until they've got these thrusters figured out which they didn't. and that costs a lot of people a lot of time and a lot of money and it's got a good boy and a very difficult situation. right. exactly about a $1000000000.00 worth spends just fixing those problems. a boeing and now space x . it's competitor is stepping into the rescue, but why is

nasa says both astronauts are in good spirits.hey held a press conference shortly after the capsule�*s safe return and told us more about the mission. i'm happy to report, starliner did really well today in the undock, the orbit and landing sequence. you know, we used the nasa docking system for the second time on the mission to undock from the space station. that system performed really well, it is a derivative system, what we'll use for orion down the road so it was good to pave the way for orion as well. ican take i can take you to the live shots, this is the view from the international space station looking down on earth from nasser. —— nasa. our science editor, rebecca morelle, told us more about the starliner�*s journey. they said it was a safe and successful landing for the spacecraft. there were a few technical issues on the way down. a couple of the thrusters didn't behave exactly as they expected, but, you know, not enough to knock it off course. and, you know, seeing it unfurl those three huge parachutes and get down on

and before that, the nasa artemis astronauts on the surface of the moon it is similar to what nasa did all those years ago, but the difference is this is a private company doing it and they're doing it. so much faster and we should mention all of these people. >> it is not just like you were i i was hoping that there was somebody who whether these are all engineers former thunderbird pilots f 16 people who can do maxwell, who can do math either. miles miles o'brien, here to give the exact specifics. on the math but this is incredible. just watching this it looks like it really is incredible to see this happening with non-professional s. yes, out there someday, soon. >> tobi us and we're going to continue to watch this and we're going to, we're going to we're going leave this for a moment. we did hear isaac man, right when he popped up. i think i might be paraphrasing and getting a couple of words off, just something to leave everybody with, which is he said back home, we got a lot of work to do. but up here it sure does look like a perfect world. so, so pretty, i thought that was i lov

. 50 and some of those experiments are for nasa-— are for nasa.ery element of this story is _ are for nasa. so every element of this story is incredible, - of this story is incredible, looking at these pictures again as you're talking the story is sarah gillis springs she started as an intern and today she does this historic spacewalk so that is absolutely amazing. at the same time, you have nasa going back to the moon, you have everything to do with space x. does that mean that the pace of technological advances speeding up you think? i think so, it seems like it so it's also the will is there to people want to go back to them in. people knowjust how beneficial it will be for humanity to go back to the moon. so, it's notjust technology is the will which is very important.— very important. what are the next stages _ very important. what are the next stages i _ very important. what are the next stages i mean - very important. what are the next stages i mean we - very important. what are the next stages i mean we seem | very important. what are the

nasa says both astronauts are in good spirits.ld a press conference shortly after the capsule�*s safe return and told us more about the mission. happy to report, starliner did really well today in the undock, the orbit and landing sequence. you know, we used the nasa docking system for the second time on the mission to undock from the space station. that system performed really well, it is a derivative system, what we'll use for orion down the road so it was good to pave the way for orion as well. dr megan argo is a senior lecturer in astrophysics at the university of central lancashire. she told me more about the difficulties of the mission. i imagine all the engineers are breathing a huge sigh of relief this morning. it looked like a textbook landing, the thrusters that had caused so many problems on the approach to the space station seemed to have worked perfectly fine on departure from the space station, moving the capsule away as intended, doing the re—entry burn, separating the capsule from the thrusters in the service modul

that was the critical moment that nasa was so worried about. it's why butch and sunny, the two nasa astronauts that were starliner's crew stayed back at the international space station, but starliner's thrusters and all of those issues did not prove to be a problem. >> during this re-entry and landing back on earth, there was one minor hiccup, one thruster on the crew module where butch and sunny would have been, didn't fire during a test that's something boeing and nasa are certainly going to be looking at today but pretty close to a picture perfect landing in white sands, new mexico. >> and so now the big question is is boeing is nasa going to require boeing to do another crewed flight test before it's certified the fully fly nasa astronauts to and from the international space station and then of course, which and sunny, there now up there at the international space station until february of 2025. this is actually where butch and sunny trained for their time up at the space station. this is a full-size mockup of it every astronaut that's up t

nasa _ have been stranded since june. nasa said... strange sound had now_ nasa said... _ astronaut katie coleman. thanks for coming on — astronaut katie coleman. thanks for coming on the _ astronaut katie coleman. thanks for coming on the programme. i for coming on the programme. that's not _ for coming on the programme. that's not what _ for coming on the programme. that's not what you _ wa nt to want to hear exactly. i would say that's — want to hear exactly. i would say that's true. _ want to hear exactly. i would say that's true. the - want to hear exactly. i would say that's true. the nasa - say that's true. the nasa explanation seemed plausible to me. it always comes back to respecting those calm people, right? respecting those calm people, riuht? , , , , right? very true. these guys don't seem _ right? very true. these guys don't seem to _ right? very true. these guys don't seem to be _ right? very true. these guys don't seem to be having - right? very true. these guys. don't seem to be having much luck, do they? i don't seem to be having much luck, do they?— luc

is simple -- nasa's d.n.a. is simply engrained in the antelope valley or what we call it in my district, the aerospace valley. that's why i'm so proud to rise in support of the nasa re-authorization act of 2024. this bill advances the art miss program, returning americans to the moon for first time in nearly 50 years. it supports our still emerging commercial space economy which is essential for artemus as well as our scientist interests and includes my bill to support work already under way at nasa to integrate unmanned aerial vehicles and ground systems into wildfire responses which will help stop fires before they spread. we need to ensure that our firefighters are equipped like combat war fighters are on the battlefield, with cutting edge technology to keep them safe and help them accomplish the mission as quickly as possible and put the fires out as quickly as possible. these u.a.v. alaska act as a force multiplier for fire fighters to help protect communities like those in my district and usher in the nex

how does nasa i mean, you covered all of these successful the unsuccessful, the tragic how does nasa navigate something like this, making a decision, which in this case involves a private companies spacecraft that's really interesting and i think it's important to put a little history in the mix here, brianna, on the eve of the launch of the space shuttle challenger, the contractor was on the teleconference pleading pleading, please don't launch. >> we don't think these o rings are going to work. and nasa ignored it and launch challenger and look what happened. here we are subsequent shuttle oscillator and nasa appears to have finally taken on the lessons of these horrific losses in space and are employing that into their culture and decision-making process. i want to give nasa a hat tip for taking that all into account. that doesn't necessarily mean that boeing is considering all the variabilities and all the possibilities in the same way, they have a narrower bandwidth, if you will, nasa is looking at the ultimate big picture here. many of the people making the decisions lived thro

butch was asked, did he feel let down by nasa and boeing.ickly replied, absolutely not he said they are trained for this type of mission and to enjoy difficult situations. he also said that there were things about the boeing starliner capsule that they were comfortable with, which is an interesting comment from him about the capsule that had taken them up there. but then he said that given the timing, he believes they would have managed to sorted out. but, of course, that iss has a strict schedule of departures and arrivals and they have to fit into that and that is, ultimately, why nasa said they'd made the decision to use spacex to bring them back. lucy: he did dodge the question about what he felt could have been done differently in terms of the starliner when he was asked about that, didn't he? reporter: he did. these estimates work for nasa, we would not have expected them to be critical of the organization. they are very proud to be astronauts, they spend years training to go into space. so we wouldn't really expect to see that from th

but how how how does how does boeing and nasa for that matter? >> how do they move forward with space exploration right now the big issue or the challenge ahead is to find out exactly everything they can about the spacecraft while the mission has landed, that's not the end of it for nasa and boeing boeing, boeing is on the hook for six more of these flights with astronauts. >> the first of which was slated to fly in february of 25. they've they've pushed that back to no earlier than august, so a year from now, in order to study this spacecraft, all the data that they received during this test flight, and really figure out what the issue was with a thrusters, why they had higher temperatures, which they even saw during landing. that they didn't affect the lending at all, but they still saw things that they really weren't expecting to see. they're going to run all of those questions down in an investigation over the next series of months, make any kinds of changes they need you to the next starliner center spacecraft being built right now to fly th

a reminder that this is not nasa.vate company doing this really interesting. >> and miles o'brien, i mean, on that point, i mean, you have, you have seen and covered so much history, space, aviation history over the past? not a few decades. i can you help us understand a little bit about how we got here that a private company is doing this now and where we're going yeah. >> it was purposeful effort on the part of nasa to try to get out of the business of directly owning and operating spacecraft to get in and out of low earth orbit now this goes back a couple of decades now. and of course, spacex has led the charge at first delivering cargo to the international space station, developing the dragon capsule, which the crew is on right now. and then eventually put crews inside. and now this is the 14th crewed mission. of a spacex dragon capsule and it has been extremely successful program. and in contrast, boeing the blue-chip aerospace enterprise, which ten years ago had a similar contract let to them from nasa, has had

he's the editor of nasa watch.com. he's a former nasa space biologist keith, always wonderful to have you on the program. i was just hoping you could weigh in on what kristen was talking about in terms of just how different this technology is that they're testing from what nasa has been using for quite literally decades, kind of how we got to this point where we have this private company taking these leaves he well, that's you know, it's sort of the thing these days like you've got craig venture the guy, one of the two guys who did the human genome. he spent resilient box on a ship and they went around the world and an ocean looking for dna in the water and came up with whole new ways to just find all this up. but he didn't win of his own money grant here and there so you've got pe insignificant resources. they've seen too much sides inspection, they don't know any better than to try and make it real. and that's what you see here in terms of the space suits, christians parents were wearing, the ones that they're still

boeing and nasa said they would push forward. is required to make modifications, small level thrusters were overheating and not necessarily failing but not conforming to standards. if they could make a reasonably quick adjustment and prove those thrusters are going to work fine the program will be fine. if this turns into an expensive time-consuming problem we will see. nasa needs a way to get astronauts to the station. they were grounded until a few days ago. they were not able to launch the markets. they were not grounded because of problems they had. space x has its own risks. flying with russians would be not optimum. the european democracy, killing european citizen on a daily basis, they are not people we should be flying with. it would be good for nasa and america once the boeing capital gets certified. griff: let me ask you to put on your astronaut mindset and the tell us if you are butch or suni, what's going through their mind now that they will spend more time on the space station, their ride home did make it? >> i have

and nasa decided ultimately that they couldn't.eal thing they were concerned about was the thruster issues on the way up. several of the thrusters didn't work properly as well as the helium leaks. so now it's back. they're going to be poring over that data again, both boeing and nasa, to see if these these issues can be fixed. i mean, they were confident in the press conference just now that they they can be overcome and they will see this fly people again in the not too distant future. but we don't have a date on that, on that when just yet. you can get more on the fact starliner has landed safely on the bbc news website, they have a picture of the actual capsule boeing have release on the ground. you can find out online, or on the news app. as the world continues to respond to the shocking death of olympic athlete rebecca cheptegai, the united nations is about to release a report about violence against women and girls in sport. the ugandan runner made her olympic debut in the women's marathon at the paris games — she died earlier

clapped and cheered so here you can see starliner just after it re-entered earth's atmosphere. >> nasa says the spacecraft made a bullseye landing it was a great day today to return starliner was great to have a successful undock the orbit and landing of the vehicle. >> i am thrilled for our boeing team and all of our colleagues have worked 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. >> starliner launched in june, then docked with the iss. now it was supposed to return to earth a week later, but helium leaks and thruster problems along the way to orbit prompted nasa to delay the return. astronauts suni williams and butch wilmore were supposed to return on starliner, but they're staying on the space station for now. cnn space and defense correspondent kristin fisher has more fehling breathing a sigh of relief this morning after starliner successfully landed in white sands, new mexico, shortly after midnight, and

mission-critical, a new report says nasa's future is at risk.ourney from uganda to austin, texas. >> this is the pbs news hour, from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. amna: today, a solemn moment at the u.s. s 13 following american military service personnel were posthumously awarded congress's highest honor, the congressional gold medal. lisa is back now with that. lisa? lisa: those service members were killed by a suicide bomb at the kabul airport during the chaotic withdrawal in august 2020 one. greeting families received metals and top leaders from both parties praised those who were lost. >> our nation owes a profound debt of gratitude to the service members and those here today. we also owe them something deeper and that is an apology. >> these 13 americans were something more heroes, guardians , saviors. lisa: the afghan withdrawal has become part of the election debate. i sat down today with kelly barnett and darren hoover, parents of sarah -- staff serge

it keeps going editor as nasa watch dot com. thank you. so very much i had a quick look now at some of the stories making headlines around the world. former republican vice president dick cheney has announced he'll be voting for the democratic presidential nominee carmella harris cheney known as a strong conservative called his own parties, nor many doughnuts. trump, a threats to our republic to nuclear ours. the palestinian authorities news agency says it's right. it strikes have killed at least 13 people sheltering in a school in old and gaza. these were in the army said it was targeting a mosque for monson to embedded on school grounds in jamalia. ukrainian president of a lot of mister landscapes in italy today as he visits european populace. he's seeking support for his campaign to attack russian military infrastructure. on friday, savanski spoke in germany as a meeting of 50 countries that have committed to send military support to ukraine. you repeat, it has the amount to use long range weapons to strike, add bases inside russia, and

and so nasa spent a lot of money and they still don't have spaces. but you know, here comes face action. they have these 2 spaces. now they don't have all the tricks they have, okay? you know, things like just to get them oxygen, which is what we did back in the day. so as i say, you know, something old, something new, something tried something true. but again, a private company. what did this in record time and a lot cheaper than the government? so, you know, add that all in together. once again, we're just seeing now that we have these capabilities with this company, new things faster than you would otherwise inspected to see them with just a government agency. that's absolutely fascinating. the crew also conducted several scientific experiments. i'm wondering if there were any exciting results from that . well, we don't know the results or yet from the by a medical ones they were doing various things about how.

why did nasa disagree? >> nasa says kaylin that there were simply too much uncertainty, like how much risk is acceptable when you've got two nasa astronauts lives on the line and there was just so much uncertainty and risk frankly surrounding these faulty misfiring thrusters, kaitlan. and so the nasa administrator, bill nelson said when they announced this big decision, he said, you know, hey, nasa has made mistakes in the past with the space shuttle challenger accident, with the space shuttle columbia accident, he said quite frankly that those accidents were front of mind when they were making this decision and they just said that this level of risk was simply not a level of risks that nasa was willing to take. and so now those two astronauts, butch wilmore and sunny williams, you know, kaitlan, they had been training in this life-size mock-up of the international space station here at the johnson space center. they've been trying to spend about eight days up here. now, of course, they're going to be spend

i don't think we would hurt any critical comments about nasa.ft that will bring going to bailfor spacecraft that will bring going to bail for watching that for us and for talking to us. we will be speaking to a former commander of the international space station. stay with let's go to washington where keir starmer is due to be meeting joe biden in the we could one of the main things they'll be discussing is about using western weapons, ukraine using western weapons, ukraine using western weapons, ukraine using western weapons to hit targets inside russia. i suppose the question is, i would get to as far as the white house is concerned we anyway. they said the will concerned we anyway. they said they will be _ concerned we anyway. they said they will be the _ concerned we anyway. they said they will be the major _ they will be the major announcement, as they parted of permission to use long—range weapons for ukraine fired into russian territory of course a backdrop to this has been the growing pleas, the sense of urgency from president zelensky w

>> certainly disappointment for the nasa boeing team.heir long history. and human space flight and aero space i think it is, obviously, a disappointment for the boeing team they couldn't deliver on what their star liner had promised. the good news is here at the end of the mission they demonstrated there was enough resilience of a starliner that it had a problem for reentry and touched down in new mexico. and so that's a place to build on boeing can help to regain its confidence with nasa by doing -- recertification and resign and then flying a successful astronaut. mission next year. david: well i'm just wondering because of the troubles that we've had, should we be redesigning our spacecraft so it is easier to get emergency rescues like this one? >> one change to consider is make space suits interchangeable on boeing and spacex crafts so you don't have to go through a long shipment of cargo with space suits like discarding other once and inner operate with space suits that's one detail. i think nasa has to be keeping in mind that no ma

nasa will still try to land the boeing starliner, though without passengers.et me remind you that in early june , the spacecraft delivered two astronauts to the iss and broke down. on saturday night , it will be undocked from the station, but the crew of berry wilmer and senita williams will have to spend at least another six months in orbit. why returning home on the starliner was deemed too dangerous for them will be corrected whether the iss life support system will cope with the sharply increased load, dmitry naide will tell in the science question section. two astronauts are stuck in space and cannot return to earth, it sounds like the plot of a science fiction film, but as they say, life is the best playwright. americans, berry wilmar and sunita williams, will have to live on the iss for some time. the booing starliner spacecraft managed to deliver them to orbit, but on the return trip to earth it will go without passengers. first, during the flight , the tanks started leaking. helium, and then the apparatus docked to the station and began to make suspic

roscosmos offered to help nasa, but they did not answer either yes or no, but nasa reports that thoseuck in orbit are in a great mood and are passionate about their work, they have everything necessary for an eight-month stay in space. special items were delivered in july. so, the conclusions: big problems, the attempt to raise the company's reputation to cosmic heights has failed miserably, fifteen years of development, apparently down the drain. secondly, its main competitor, musk's company, will pick up the stranded astronauts from orbit on the spacex ship, and will apparently receive the next delivery contracts. and most importantly, americans rush to save their own only in films in which they portray competitors as blockheads. but in reality, the country a superpower turns out to be quite vulnerable. a target at the first force majeure, and apparently, it's time for someone to come down to earth, you can't go far on pr alone if you're an unreal superpower, as the sixteenth us president abraham lincoln, who abolished slavery, used to say, you can fool a few for a long time, you ca

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