Posted on 12/22/2019 4:33:43 PM PST by BenLurkin
Boeing's spacecraft landed safely at New Mexico's White Sands Missile Range at 7:58AM Eastern, making it the first US-made, crew-ready capsule to touch down on solid ground. Previous capsules from the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs all landed in the sea.
Boeing and NASA said during the briefing that they still expected a crewed flight in 2020, but that they wanted to review data before deciding the next course of action. There are still more dry runs to go, including an in-flight abort test to complement the launch abort test from November. While NASA is eager to reduce its dependence on Russian spacecraft to transport astronauts, it also wants to ensure that vehicles like Starliner and SpaceX's Crew Dragon are trustworthy before there are people aboard.
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The Boeing 737 MAX also lands on the ground.
If NASA needs astronauts for this, well, I volunteer......
I volunteer Hillary Clinton.
Just throw her in the capsule like it’s a van.
Boeing did something Russia has been doing for 60 years. Good enough but I’d hardly call it “history making”.
The Chinese-bribed media has been bashing Boeing all week long. Please let’s not join them in attacking this great American company.
Boeing engineering. It didn’t get to where it was supposed to go.
The Boeing 737 MAX also stays on the ground. /fixed
Boeing has most of it coming.
Uh, didn’t they fail to reach the ISS?
Give me a break( reporter), I’ll see your random location parachute enabled vertical ground contacts and raise you 133 precision horizontal landings: ( The Space Shuttle). This article makes it sound like we are decades behind.
[Boeing engineering. It didn’t get to where it was supposed to go.]
There was a full day of rocket engine testing at Stennis yesterday. Multiple starts every hour. Continued well into the evening.
Technically yes, 1st one designed to make ground landings, but more than one Apollo boilerplate landed at White Sands during abort tests. Still waiting for modern era Boeing to impress me, so far they get a big yawn.
Oh and we have landed on the ground vertically after a visual approach to pick the precise landing spot, from orbit, several times. On the MOON.
The descent module of the LEM being single use, they designed engines to cut when some probes touched the ground, and designed the legs to crumple to absorbe energylike a modern car in an collision. But Armstrong hand flew it and greased his landing and there was so little crushing that the drop from the ladder to step onto the moon was much higher than planned for.
737 Max of space flight...by the same geniuses who moved Boeing HQ to Chicago...of all unChristly places.
Are these the same people who made B 17’s? I wouldn’t buy a popsicle made by them now.
It comes to ground too albeit not in a nice way.
“...making it the first US-made, crew-ready capsule to touch down on solid ground...”
Any volunteers to ride the next one? Me either.
“Please let’s not join them in attacking this great American company.”
Formerly.
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