[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] good evening everyone I think we're live I think we're good we are here to bring you live coverage of the Boeing Starliner Landing assuming everything goes okay we are going to bring you coverage of the Boeing Starliner spacecraft which has no crew on it right now and several hours ago about 4 hours ago it undocked from the International Space space station and it is supposed to land in New Mexico in a little under 2 hours as you can see we have our countdown clock there and uh there's going to be a NASA live stream coming up which we're going to watch look oh my gosh NASA's Boeing crew flight test re-entry and Landing it's called The Crew flight test because originally it had two crew on it and they were supposed to come back with the Boeing star liner but the Boeing star liner had some issues and NASA was not confident enough in the spacecraft to uh put the astronauts on it for the return trip so the astronauts the two astronauts Sunny Williams and um and Butch Wilmore will be coming back in February on a SpaceX uh spacecraft so um but we are going to see the re-entry and Landing coming up um and the NASA live stream starts in about 45 minutes 45 minutes so we're going to hang out we're going to talk we're going to get you updated and then in about 45 minutes we're going to watch the NASA stream actually give me one second here let me just making a quick adjustment here okay so I appreciate you guys uh being with me for this and look Boeing's beler Starliner capsule leaves space station and heads home without any astronauts that is from Associated Press so uh it's supposed to land at 1203 a eastern time and but but before that we're g to there re-entry and again NASA's going to start their I'm going to show you what NASA says about this NASA's going to start their broadcast in about less than 45 minutes let me show you what NASA says is coming up up NASA's Boeing Starliner Mission Landing criteria timeline so they say um oh I need the other article hold on look at this look at this at 10:50 p.m. coverage resumes for deorbit burn entry and Landing so there's going to be uh a firing of the thrusters I believe um to get it out of orbit and then we're going to it's going to go through re-entry uh hopefully it survives re-entry and it's going to land uh so we got all of that coming up uh 12:03 a.m. is the targeted landing and then at 1:30 a.m. post Landing news conference oh my gosh so um so it's coming up it is coming up guys guys post Landing news conference whatever happens well I think they're going to do one of those hey thanks to our new member Emmy thank you Emmy I appreciate that thank you um okay so yes uh a says one way or the other it is coming down that is true that is true oh also let me show you this look at this I saw this before Boeing reports sorry NASA reports that the entry cover for Starliner has been closed and secured for entry so some of you were saying like why is the top open uh that's I I believe the the top is what was attached to the [Music] um yeah it docks through here and the cover was open see look this is associate press see that when it undocked there um the cover was open but they have now closed the cover the cover has been closed and secured for entry teams continue to Target around bidnight for landing in New Mexico oh my gosh oh my gosh so we only have about uh 42 minutes until NASA coverage resumes 42 minutes get ready get ready folks get ready will it survive we don't know uh thank you by the way to um OB conaby thinks they're hoping fewer people stay up to see what happens I think they just schedule it based on you know favorable conditions and alignment of certain celestial bodies maybe I mean there's space launches all the time at night uh Richie F says I don't think it will survive uh thank you to Ruth crasi for moderating Ruth is over there moderating there on YouTube uh and thank you to our other moderators Linda Bel and Larry on X walam says I'm ready me shout out our other moderators as well we have moderating on Twitch Sarah is there right now thank you Sarah and we have hang on a moment we also have with us we also have with us Margaret Riley is moderating K Lowry body thank you all right 40 minutes until the NASA live stream begins and oh I wanted to mention somebody had asked about seeing it NASA had posted where you could see it oh what's this here spot Starliner on its way back to Earth after the spacecraft undocks from the space station which it already did it will SAR through our skies before landing in New Mexico if you're on the visibility path all times mountain time and skies are clear look up and you might see it so it is you need to be in basically in New Mexico the only state you can see it in B in the United States is New Mexico those times are mountain that's mountain time well actually I take it back Arizona parts of Arizona in Texas it looks like you can in theory yes parts of Arizona in Texas you could see it if your can get can see low enough on the horizon and and you're looking in the right direction see that that light blue there there's dark green light green and blue the blue area is go it reaches into Texas and Arizona but that's only like a few minutes I mean this is this is uh 945 948 952 this is all um mountain time yes El pit says Mexico yes definitely Mexico I was just I was just pointing out the American states but yes Mexico some people in Mexico can see it too or if you're on the water in the right place yeah we're going to talk about how it lands in a second we're going to talk about how it lands why don't we do that right now it's going to look like this it's going to look like this oh we should look up white Sand's Missile Range uh space Harbor we should look that up on Google Maps so it it has airbags it actually has airbags it uses to land look at that that was the same craft Landing well I don't know if it's identical but is it is the Starliner safe spacecraft Landing in uh 2022 the previous test flight let me show you first of all I'm going to show you where where we're talking about white Sand's Missile Range let me pull up the map everything went fine fine with the undocking by the way with the undocking it's that that went fine White Sands I guess white Sand's Missile Range is what we're looking for right I'm pulling it up on the screen and I'm going to show you where this is white Sand's Missile Range is where is going to be landing now if I do this good good good good good oops sorry too much so it is in Southern New Mexico southern New Mexico White Sands Missile Range you can see right there that is where it is and if we zoom in here there it is pretty uh pretty not very populated down there it doesn't look like okay all let's read about um let's read about what this Landing is going to be like okay okay once clear to proceed with the final part of the landing um Starliner uh executes its deorbit burn so that is going to be a believe a firing of its thrusters which gets it out of its orbit which lasts approximately 60 seconds slowing it down enough to re-enter Earth's atmosphere and committing the spacecraft to its targeted site now it's possible we'll actually see that deorbit burn on on the NASA stream maybe I'm hoping we do I don't know if we'll do though I don't know I don't know I don't I don't know because I don't know what we would need some sort of camera to see it maybe they have some satellite that can see it I don't know I'm sure we'll see it once it gets in the atmosphere and it's it's coming down in a parachute and stuff we'll see it then um we did see we did see it undock but that was being shot from the space St so I I don't know if we'll have a live video of it doing a deorbit burn I mean maybe there's cameras on this thing is there a camera on this that could show you some of the deorbit burn maybe maybe there's actually just a camera on the Starliner that could it's not going to be that far I mean it's going to be on the Starliner if that's the case but maybe we get some of that footage uh our viewer our one of our viewers says I'm sure they'll see us what I'm sure we'll see what they want us to see that is NE is breaks o o blank says its camera probably doesn't work either so anyways it's going to do a deorbit burn for like a minute which will slow it down enough to reenter Earth's atmosphere and committing the spacecraft to its targeted site immediately after the deorbit burn Starliner repositions for service module disposal which will burn up during re-entry over the Southern Pacific Ocean the service module actually has the thrusters on it you know that so the thrusters have been a source of some issues some of the thrusters have not worked properly on this flight which has been a big deal um for NASA it's a big reason that that they're not they don't have astronauts on this coming down like they had coming going up but um they're not going to be able to study the thrusters as I understand it at on Earth because uh on they're not going to study them physically on Earth uh with the original thrusters because the original thrusters are on the service module I believe um okay uh following service module Separation The Command Module Maneuvers into re-entry position during re-entry the capsule experiences plasma buildup reaching temperatures of up to 3,000 de fah that may interrupt Communications with the spacecraft for approximately four minutes now I've known I know we've covered SpaceX launches where on the SpaceX craft they would have um no we've covered SpaceX Landings well no we've covered the launches but in the launch you'll have something go out of the atmosphere and come back in the atmosphere and we've seen live footage from a camera attached to some that SpaceX launches when it's coming back into the atmosphere I I don't know during re-entry so I don't know if this spacecraft has a camera on it which will let us see during re-entry what is going on uh once Starliner re-enters Earth atmosphere okay the forward heat shield located on the top of the spacecraft which I guess is this is it I think up here the forward heat shield is jettisoned at 30,000 ft exposing the two drogue and three main parachutes for deployment a drog is a I looked this up before it's a parachute for a fast moving object uh the parachutes will continue to slow the spacecraft down as the base heat shield as the base heat shield is jettisoned at 3 ,000 ft I guess that's on the bottom here but it wouldn't be there on this one because it's already landed um allowing the six but once the base heat shield is jettisoned that allows the six Landing bags to deflate inflate so the base heat shield is jettisoned at 3,000 ft then the six Landing bags inflate at touchtown the spacecraft is traveling at approximately 4 miles an hour four miles an hour and it lands on the airbags how about that it lands on the airbags this is that is a shot of the May 20 2022 uh the previous flight test in 2022 of the Starliner that is a shot of the landing of it from NASA so that's what that's what it should look like that's what it should look like today eventually you can see how empty that area is that that Landing is at the same place it's at White White Sands Missile ranges space Harbor that's where it's supposed to land today so we have a preview of what it will look like right in that P right in that photograph I wonder if I can get a bigger shot of this Photograph again this is from NASA oh I can oh I can oh lovely lovely lovely all right hold on let me just do this this is a NASA photograph it's exciting you don't always get a preview of what you're going to see so look at this look at this thing look at this thing all right wow check that out guys that is what it'll look like and that is the location it's going to supposed to land in pretty empty out there huh look at that wow there's nothing around Tim 747 says fascinating what they can do with today's technology um that guy from nothing says that looks like it's from the 60s Aladdin says White Sands is pretty lots to do I don't know if Aladdin is joking or if there's maybe a place called wh Sands near this range where you can do stuff I don't know uh I can look it up real quick White Sands New Mexico oh there there there is a there's a national park it looks like there White Sands National park is in is there White Sands National park says Wikipedia is completely surrounded by the white Sand's Missile Range how about that interesting uh Pat W says it has external cameras but don't know if it will be we will be able to see any feeds from the external cameras on this spacecraft can I show The Craft attaching again we might look at that shortly we might look at that shortly um thank you to Dances with Wolves and Barbara Crossley and not a gray by the way uh oh what's this oh good I just got some good news I just got some good news the good news is the good news is that that um we should be able to bring you the debate the presidential debate I have to just there's a technical way I have to do it to comply with ABC's request um but that should work in theory so that's what we're going to do all right so I I just I just read this right now sorry sorry to interrupt so I gotta I'll I'll I'll get on that the next couple days the debate is on September 10th the debate is on September 10th but uh that's good so so hopefully that shouldn't be an issue technically and we will bring you the debate on the 10th how about that great wonderful okay what time is it on the 10th what time is the debate on the 10th uh I got to look it up the debate is on excuse me 9 o'clock nine o'clock on the 10th I just read that hey thanks so much AJ AJ that's so nice of you AJ just gave 10 people gift memberships in the YouTube chat make sure you thank AJ if you gave you a gift membership or if anybody gives you a gift or gift membership or subscription make sure you thank them thanks also to seho thank you coo who is COO from Turkey yes wow and thank you to Bull t850 for your support Bull T says it is a huge footprint Trinity is in it that's what you mean the what the missile the White Sands Missile Miss Miss range is that what you're talking about or the National Park oh yeah so according to Wikipedia the first atomic bomb code named Trinity was test detonated at Trinity site near the northern boundary of the White Sands Missile Range how about that guys thanks to uh bull t850 for mentioning that uh you can read more on the article on Wikipedia White Sands Missile Range on Wikipedia they have a whole article about it that you can read all right anyways I'll get off this picture but the reason I was showing this picture is this picture is of the landing of the Boeing Starliner in its last test flight in 2022 in the same place that this one is supposed to land so it should look like that when it lands it's the same craft in the same place so it should look like that at the end keep that in mind okay right now what time is it hold on we let's get organized here let's get organized here so we are bringing you live coverage of the Boeing star liner re-entry and Landing um and in 21 minutes in 21 minutes and 30 seconds NASA will start their live stream and we will be watching uh live coverage from NASA and talking about it in about 21 minutes guys hey thanks Rob vanroy for the Netherlands for the membership thanks so much and thanks also Brian Tampa thank you thanks Brian so in about 20 minutes NASA's gonna pick up their live coverage guys uh thanks also to flash I'll say Flash and B uh for your support on Twitch I I want to make sure I'm taking some more comments too but I also want to kind of give her summary of what's going on uh let's see here also I'll make sure I'm not hearing anything more from like NASA being posted oh uh NASA just posted while Starliner makes its return to Earth NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunni Williams they are the two astronauts who took this craft in June up to the international space station remember the Boeing Starliner this was its first it's supposed to this was its first and it was supposed to be its only manned test flight it had two astronauts on it sunny uh Sunny Williams not Sunny Williams Sunny Williams and Butch Wilmore so they were supposed to go to the space station for like a week so they took this craft up to the space station but there were some of the some of the thrusters didn't work and also there were some helium leaks and NASA did not bring them down after a week like they were supposed to come down um they were concerned about the spacecraft and they spent months looking into this and looking into these issues with the spacecraft and ultimately NASA decided that they were not confident enough in the functioning of the spacecraft the safety of the craft to bring the astronauts home so the astronauts instead of coming home are staying up there until February so they'll have about an 8mths stay instead of an 8 Days stay and they will come back on a SpaceX spacecraft um crew Dragon spacecraft and this Starliner spacecraft just a few hours ago as you can see in that photo uh undocked uh from the space station and it has been making its way and it's in the process of coming back to Earth and in about 19 minutes NASA's going to start their live feed again which we can watch and we're going to we're going to see the re-entry into the atmosphere and hopefully hopefully the re-entry and landing of the Starliner in New Mexico but there's nobody on it there's no people on it all right no they I uh Joker to says they are they getting pum we talked about this previously and I believe there was a NASA article I found which which somebody sent me which said that they just get paid a salary I I they don't get I don't believe they get paid extra no actually I'm sorry I think they might get a small perum but they don't get like a big bump in their salary put it that way I do think I read they get some sort of small PDM thing but they're not getting like super overtime thing if that's if that was the nature of the question like did they get paid a lot extra or something no they're they're on a salary um but I don't want to really take a lot we we we covered that on another stream so I don't really want to spend 10 minutes researching it uh if I can take two seconds and find it let's see I'm not going to worry about it right now I'm not going to worry about it right that is my reme my memory of what the deal is with that um okay oh thanks to coretti Our member thank you oh some so one of our viewers requested that we get to see the that we watch the undocking again so I can take a minute and show you the undocking again whoa whoa whoa if you want to see it sure why don't we LOD why don't we check out the undocking again you guys want to check that out it doesn't take that long um so if we do how am I doing this that's on that's off all right so that's there I need to put myself somewhere I need to put my I I fixed this oh there we go see how I fixed it I got myself on the left side for this broadcast we usually don't put me on the left side but I put me on the left side in case I needed it so because I got to have the NASA logo up there is this playing oh no oh no I thought I had it paused stop okay so now we're GNA watch um this is a replay this is not this is not live this is not live this is a replay uh I'm going to say replay of undocking so people don't get confused all right this is a replay of the undocking okay well and and in about we have um 16 minutes in 16 minutes in 16 minutes NASA is going to pick up their live stream so let's check out the undocking here here we go it's playing now watch it you're G to see it oh look at that oh my gosh it's undocking separation confirmed Starliner is now backing away from station and starting its return to Earth Starliner sters will then complete two short firings to gradually increase the separation speed to help the spacecraft carefully move away from the orbiting lab so it's undocking this was this was hours ago a few hours ago is now about 2 meters away from the International Space Station at the time of undocking Starliner in the International Space Station we're flying approximately 260 statute miles over Central China and now you're going to see it's it's it's its thrusters are going to start firing so check this out check this out ster will be beginning a breakout burn soon which will take the spacecraft forward and above station again this was a sequence starliners thrusters will perform a series of 12 short firings the entire sequence takes about 5 minutes to complete and allows Starliner to quickly break out to outside the approach ellipsoid or8 into the burn sequence look at the left side look at the left side or the K look at the left side it'll be obvious soon they'll show another angle and you'll see the Jets firing see the see on the left side Jers firing there on the left of your screen away from space station so we'll we now just at 35 M away from the International Space Station again this is a replay from a few hours ago a good first burn ISS ISS enabled confirmation all 27 Jets have fired this is a replay look at that and you're seeing the light show there on your screen so just for people who didn't see it earlier look at that W and the first three of the 12 firings have completed and there's about a 100 second pause until the fourth burn hang on one second here give me one moment yeah no the NASA stream is not live the NASA stream is not live more fake news in our chat um it'll be live in about 12 minutes oops sorry oops there so we're just watching this was earlier this was earlier letting you guys see this because it's really cool as as the UND as the Starliner moved away from the space station and was firing its thrusters Starliner is about 60 M away and in about 10 minutes or so NASA will pick up its stream with new live stream and fight controllers are reporting good attitude and good control we are standing by for the fourth of the 12 Burns in the series of firings as part of the breakout burn as a reminder the entire sequence will take about 5 minutes to complete about 4 minutes into the sequence Starliner will cross what is known as the appro or the keep out sphere the keep out sphere is an imaginary 200 M sphere centered on the space station we are 15 seconds away from the fourth burn in the series of 12 again this is a replay you're watching this is a replay that you are watching look at that wow now I don't know if it's going to look like that when during the deorbit burn was just completed we're hearing good burn so these these Thruster firings are very quick the deorbit burn is supposed to be about a minute long when it fires thrusters for about a minute that's coming up and the fifth burn and that sequence of 12 just completed and it was a good burn so this was before and soon NASA's going to be live with live footage the sixth burn and the series of 12 was just completed and it was a good burn we have we are halfway through the series of 12 six more to go yeah and just to show you and just to show you just to show you because two different people two different people have claimed in the chat that the NASA stream is live this is literally the NASA stream you're literally looking at the live NASA Stream So what these people in the chat are talking about I have no idea I just don't know what they're talking about it's not hard to do go to the channel and look at it and you will see it is not live yet okay so let's let's watch a little more of the replay you might be able to see some of those lights on the front of Starliner a red and a green and a white those indicate the different sides of Starliner and they're used by the ISS crew to watch Starliner move away from the ISS along the UN talking access and we just heard good confirmation of both Burns seven and eight completed Starliner undock I'm going to turn the volume down on this voluming left and its breakout breakout burn so oh see it's now about 150 meters away from the International Space Station see it's firing those structures again so um again we have uh 9 minutes until the 9 minutes until NASA picks up their live stream again with more live coverage okay three people have just said in the chat is this video live so I guess see the word r p a y right on the video right on the screen r p a y that word is called it say is pronounced replay and the word replay means you're playing something from before okay um let's uh go back all right so we watched enough of this that was before we've watched the before we have watched the before now we're waiting for the NASA live stream which is coming up in about s minutes there you go oh I got to get this off NASA's Boeing crew flight test re-entry and Landing hang on a second here here's a little summary from Associated Press of what went wrong with the initial with the in with with with the Starliner so that they didn't want to bring the astronauts back on the Starliner uh Associated Press says even before the two astronauts launched on the Starliner on January 5th the Starliner propulsion system was leaking helium the leak was small and thought to be isolated but four more helium leaks cro cropped up after liftoff then during the flight five thrusters failed although four of the thrusters were thrusters were recovered it gave NASA pause as to whether more malfunctions might hamper The capsule's Descent from orbit Boeing conducted numerous Thruster tests in space and on the ground around over the summer and was convinced that its spacecraft could safely bring Wilmore and Williams home but NASA disagreed with this NASA was not as sure as Boeing was and NASA decided hey we're gonna fly this thing back without a crew we're going to have a SpaceX craft take them home in February the SpaceX crew dragon has been for four years now taking astronauts to and from the space station um and uh the they said we're just going to fly the spe star liner back home uh with no crew on it so that's what's been happening over the last several hours and in less than five minutes in less than five minutes uh the NASA stream is going to go live and we're going to get the reentry and the landing of the Starliner if it survives at all oh let's do a quick poll um will Starliner land with no major problems yes or no yes or no okay I just posted it on YouTube and now I'm going to post it on Twitch we just have enough time to do a poll before NASA goes live let's see what our viewers say all right so over there on YouTube over there on YouTube the current poll result is uh 56% say it will band with no major problems people are a little more optimistic than they were earlier in the evening 56% on YouTube Say it'll land with no major problems but 43% say no there will be major problems and on Twitch uh a little more optimistic on Twitch wow 60% on Twitch say it's going to land with no major problems so you guys are a little more optimistic than you were earlier in the evening and a majority now think it's going to land with no major problems all right we'll have to see are we expecting problems and why well this Starliner was supposed to take two astronauts home and it's not taking them home because Boeing because NASA was not fully confident in the space craft now that doesn't necessarily mean you should expect problems cuz maybe if maybe if NASA thought there was a 1% chance of something going really wrong that would be maybe if they thought that they would they might have thought some small some small number like that some small percentage chance was too much to bring astronauts in but that wouldn't mean it's very very likely that something will go wrong I honestly don't know we'll have to see we'll have to see all right uh less than two minutes until the NASA live stream starts we're going to be we're going to have the NASA live stream we're going to be talking about it uh and watching it together thanks to our new member CK thanks to bbop and Rocksteady for your support thank you to Brienne uh our new member and also uh hey let's just shout out our mods real quick before the live stream starts before the NASA stream starts um Ruth grafas thank you Ruth so much for modding Linda Bel Linda Bel and Larry over there on X thank you uh on Twitch thank you so much I got that fire McBites Sarah and papa bear thank you on Facebook let me thank our Facebook mods give me a second can I thank them before the NASA live stream starts do I have time uh we'll see if I have time I'm about to thank them Kay Lowry body Margaret Riley Ronald eggor thank you for modding all right uh less than a minute until the NASA live broadcast starts less than one minute we're about to see the reentry and Landing uh Landing is scheduled for a minute and an hour 13 minutes and 30 seconds from now oh my gosh it's getting closer everyone what will happen what is going to happen will it land safe and sound intact no problems or not oh here we go hold on it just went live give me a moment here there it is there it is it is live see that's what it looks like when it's live everyone see now it's called The Crew flight test because originally it was a crude flight test but but there is no crew on the flight home because there were some issues on the flight up to the space station give me a moment here okay the music is playing the music is playing here it is hold on hold on here we good evening and welcome to NASA's Johnson Space Center and our coverage of Boeing's crew flight test I'm Brandy Dean with NASA and I'm Lauren brinky with Boeing Starliner safely Departed the International Space Station and is on its way back to Earth Starliner is making its return autonomously tonight without Nas astronauts Butch Wilmore and sunny Williams after a decision to return without crew was made during a flight test Readiness review last week but the team here in Michigan troll will be watching over star laner over the course of the next hour and a half as a spacecraft fires its engines to drop back into Earth's atmosphere and make its way down for a landing in New Mexico at about 11:00 p.m. central or midnight Eastern the team here is Led tonight by flight director Rick henfling with weather assistance from flight director Mike Lamers hling is just under 7 minutes away from polling the flight controllers here in the room on their Readiness for Starliner to perform a c orbit burn at Starliner Landing Zone teams in Florida Houston and New Mexico have been monitoring the spacecraft mostly undocked from the International Space Station at 5:04 p.m. time while flying 260 miles over Central China NASA is having a little issues little and Sun Williams National Space Station in June is part of NASA's Boeing crew flight test a United launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from complex 31 at Cape can guys guys just so you know the glitches are not on my end the actual NASA stream is glitchy during that June 6th Rendevous NASA and Boeing identified helium links and experienced issues with the Starliner reaction control festers as the spacecraft approached the space station since then engineering teams have completed a significant amount of work collecting and reviewing data conducting flight and ground testing hosting independent reviews with agency propulsion experts and developing various return contingency plans uncertainty and uh lack of expert concurrence did not meet the agency's safety and performance requirements for human space flight thus prompting NASA's decision to return Boeing Starliner spacecraft to Earth without the astronauts but Wilmore and sunny Williams aboard the uncrewed return allows NASA to continue Gathering test data on Starliner during its upcoming flight home while also not accepting additional risk for the crew lumore and Williams meanwhile have uh formally joined the Expedition 7172 crew and are going to remain at the space station conducting science experiments and helping with maintenance through February 2025 they're going to fly home aboard a dragon spacecraft with two other crew members assigned to the agency's SpaceX crew 9 mission that is NASA astronauts Nick Haag and Russ Cosmos Cosmonaut Alexander goranov on Thursday afternoon the hatches were closed between Starliner and International Space Station and earlier today at 5:04 p.m. central the docking hooks released Starliner allowing it to separate and begin moving away from the space station journey home you can see that uh video from earlier today playing here the deorbit burn is coming up guys this is footage from earlier the deorbit burn is coming up that was earlier when it was firing beautiful display of Starliner thrusters there so this is from earlier that was on our first stream that is a live shot of call also had some words to say for the teams here on the ground as it Starliner was making its way away from the space station station Houston Space ground two for Starliner undock status this is from earlier as well go ahead we're with you hey Sunny both the Starliner and ISS flight control teams have pulled go for undock at this time the expected undock time is 2204 okay copy 2204 hey you know we're just looking at the flight control roster and like wow it is the allstar team you guys it is the time to bring Calypso home you have got this where we have your backs and you've got this bring her back to Earth good luck sunny and Butch this is Chloe just on behalf of the entire Mo team I know the other flight control teams around the building we thank you for your endless Support over the years we've enjoyed every training event and every meeting we remember every setback and every Revelation with you the teams on the ground have worked countless hours over the last few weeks months and for a group of us years to bring Calypso back and we're ready to do that today we wish you the best of luck in your increment and sunny I will make sure the right people have your Coming Home song ready to play on Space ground when it's time for you guys to come home good luck and thank you as they said that was audio from earlier appreciate that and we agree many years of uh great enjoyment um simming together uh playing together and being involved with each other's lives and it's been special um bring it home Cy thank you and have a good evening that again was a a conversation recorded earlier today between astronauts Sunny Williams and Butch Wilmore talking with the Starliner flight director at the time of undocking Chloe miring since that undocking uh when star laner and the space station were flying 260 Mi above Central China starer has been steadily increasing the distance between it and the space station ensuring that it will be able to get into Spa into place uh to perform a 10:17 p.m. central D orbit burn at that 20 minutes look at that while it has been moving away the flat controllers here on the ground took the opportunity to perform a few test of starliners thrusters during the test the crew modules 12 small reaction control system thrusters one of the Jets didn't fire when commanded the reaction control system thrusters on the crew module are used to steer Starliner as it makes its way back down to earth after the uh service module has been jettisoned because those 12 jets are divided into two redundant strings of six Starliner only uses one string during normal operations so although this means a slight loss of redundancy it shouldn't keep Starliner from getting through re-entry and Landing is expected okay so they tested the thrusters Starliner has plenty of redundancy with this part of the prop system on the capsule so no impact to the deorbit burn or re-entry and it's not required for flight roles the team also 10 of the 28 reaction control system jets in the service module after undocking and they all performed as expected so one Thruster is not working but it doesn't matter because they have other one the team gave their go officially to Rick hling today's flight director meaning that uh tonight's Landing of Starliner is on that again is scheduled to happen touchdown at uh 11:00 p.m. central time or midnight eastern time oh really cuz before they said it was going to be 12:03 I have to adjust my clock now they're saying midnight for sure or midnight estimated because before it said 1203 I'm not going to fix my clock yet I'll have to hear more from them on that but about an hour until it lands soon there's going to be the deorbit burn they said that one Thruster was not working but they have redundancy so they have other thrusters that can do what that Thruster does but I don't know like in theory in theory how bad is it bad that one isn't working even though it's not supposed to affect the you know the the re-entry in the landing because the thrusters have been problematic during during during the flight on the way up they were problematic so it's interesting that one of them isn't working once again flight director Rick hling has gotten a go from starliners for Star four starliners deorbit burn from all of the flight controllers watching over the spacecraft's return tonight and that again means we are officially on for starliners return to Earth at about 11:00 p.m. central time or midnight Eastern about the newor burn at uh 10:17 p.m. central Time Is Now just 17 minutes away that'll be a 59 second firing of four of Starliner orbital maneuvering and attitude control thrusters on starliners service module so in about 1 live from Starliner Landing Zone with wh Sands at wh Sands space Harbor in New Mexico our colleagues Leah Cheshire from NASA public affairs and Boeing's Josh Barrett Leah and Josh how is it going out there whoa look at this it's it is going well out here uh we are out here in White Sands the weather right now is about 75 de and daylight winds approximately 6 mph uh this looks like potentially a picture from earlier today it is quite dark out here at this point we have a beautiful view the Stars lined up in the Convoy getting ready to roll that's right Leah so I've been out here for both of star liner's previous Landings the first one was very cold the second one was quite warm and this one feels just about right uh we're following along with two command vehicles Les we've got the mlcc or the mobile Landing control center uh they're tied in down in Mission Control in Houston with the people that you're seeing on your screen right now uh we also have the mdtv that's the mobile data and tracking vehicle and on top of that it's got a suite of Optics on top there's an infrared camera and two visible cameras one of them with a telescopic Focus so those will be the first things that we'll be seeing Starliner with here from The Landing Zone and you should be seeing those on your screens as well and Leah's got a few more things that she'll talk about that should get some cameras on Starliner as well yeah especially the WB 57 NASA plane that took off just a few hours ago uh just as we were heading out here to The Landing site so we arrived here at about 600 PM local time which is Mountain Time uh and since then have been getting ready lining up uh doing Communications checks between the various teams and just getting ready to eventually drive out to The Landing site once Starliner comes down so uh it is a sea of white gypsum standand out here um and teams are continuing to just prepare as soon as we get into that deorbit burn so they are actually in a uh huddle right now talking through some of the next steps for tonight um getting ready to come and join us here in the Convoy as we await to see the deorbit burn so with that right now we are going to turn it back over to you Brandy and Lauren we are going to stick around though and cannot wait to see Starliner coming straight across the sky thank you wow we'll get to see that later thanks so much Leah and Josh we are hoping to get some good views from where you guys are at later today now once we make that final burn to get out of orbit today it'll take about 45 minutes for Starliner to reach its destination again white sand space Harbor in New Mexico where we just spoke with our colleagues from Starliner is currently flying with its solar arrays pointed toward the sun recharging the internal batteries to keep it systems powered through Landing the orbital maneuvering and attitude control thrusters or what we call omx will fire for about a minute to conduct the deorbit burn that maneuver slows the spacecraft down from orbital velocities and allows it to start falling back to Earth in a head down position at the end of that deorbit burn Starliner angles itself for re-entry the deorbit burn is just the first in a series of Milestones we're going to be taking off tonight to give you the full rundown uh do orbit bar is scheduled for 10:17 p.m. central as uh as we said we just got the go for that a few minutes ago it's going to be followed by the separation of the crew module from the service module at 10:20 p.m. and the crew module will then continue on on its own at 10:45 p.m. Starliner will begin to fill the uh effects of the Earth's atmosphere again for the first time since its asent in June and a few minutes later around 10:47 the heat from Star liner's re-entry will become so intense that the pl that will begin uh to form around the spacecraft causing a blackout in Communications with Starliner for about 4 and 1/2 minutes once Starliner clears that blackout period things will begin to happen very quickly yeah so then up next at 10:56 when Starliner is about po 4.3 miles above Earth the spacecraft will be done with the forward heat shield that is at the top of the capsule that helped protect it through re-entry and it will jettison it to make way for the parachutes that are stored underneath and then almost immediately those parachutes will begin to deploy first with two smaller drug parachutes that are meant to take the edge off Starliner speed they open up in stages over the course of about 28 seconds and then at 10:57 p.m. when Starliner is about 6 miles up the drug parachutes are released and three main parachutes are deployed they also open in stages over about 16 seconds but they stay with the spacecraft all the way until till touchdown and again we are expecting that touchdown to come at 11:00 p.m. central just before the touchdown however at 10:58 p.m. Starliner also sheds its based heat shield at the bottom of the capsule to make way for the inflation of six Landing airbags hidden underneath it and those will cushion the vehicle as it lands in New Mexico's desert lands on airbags it has airbags built in it's probably worth mentioning that we do not have a video from Starliner if you think back to June on its ascent and journey to the International Space Station um it it's not able to send video down when it's not connected to space station so we won't be getting infl views from it but we do have several cameras out at the Landing site as well as some aircraft in the area that where you're hoping to get some views from uh but of course it is going to be pretty dark out in the desert at night so um they may be infrared or black and white views um but hopefully we we'll get some some good uh camera views to show you all right so we're not going to see it in space we're going to see it when it gets it what's in the sky hopefully through some Tak a look from The Landing site but uh the shot is quite dark at the moment you can see just a few lights blinking there uh hopefully as we get uh closer to the ground as Starliner gets closer down we will have some better shots Helm cat says will it show up onight flight radar it's good I was thinking about that I don't know if it'll show up on flight radar will we see the plasma stage apparently not because when the when Starliner is not connected is not communicating with the space station it can't send video it can't send video Gary eer thinks it will not show up on flight radar uh 55 minutes till landing and uh really just a few minutes about 10 minutes until the deorbit burn it's really too bad we can't see that because the deorbit burn is basically thrusters firing for a minute four thrusters firing to slow it down for a minute oh one of our viewers said you'll see the NASA planes on flight radar that's interesting because they did say they were going to have some planes in the year the landing and Recovery teams have been out in the desert preparing for the spacecraft's return for several days I've been speaking with them to catch up on some of the preps that have been taking place they ran through a full mission dress rehearsal where they practi the landing and Recovery operation with all the different groups and functions and they've also been keeping a close eye on the wind direction to establish the best recovery zone out at White Sands they've even sent up some weather balloons to check the wind speeds tracking Vehicles out there are equipped cameras uh so the team has been calibrating those and again although we don't expect any views from Starliner on its way down we're hoping to get some good ones from those tracking cameras as well as aircraft in the area we plan to have the WB 57 getting views while it is um about 16,000 ft above the ground until the drug parachutes uh deploy and then at about 6,000 ft um we hope to see views from a Cessna in the area that's the airplane they were just talking about right there that's the airplane this is actually a current view of the Cessna as it makes its way out to The Landing site Harbor in New Mexico that's the that's the view from the plane they're they're showing that was a live shot from the plane that black and white shot this is a shot from one of the ground cameras that we have on S side so again although it is dark there we are hoping to to see um to see some good views those are those cameras can see in the dark that's the plane right there few hours the teams there on the ground rading area loading up their vehicles making sure all the equipment is ready to go and then shortly they'll begin moving into place to watch Starliner make its Final Approach and then once theiner lands teams will move closer in a very strategic way they will first stop at about the 500t mark away from the spacecraft and then they'll move in closer to the 150t mark while ground teams safe the vehicle that first team on site with Starliner will be what we call the gold team they start recovery operations by performing what's called a sniff test where they use sensors to check for hydrazine one of the propellants that star liner uses they'll be wearing protective gear known as hazmat suits to prevent exposure to hypergolic propellants hydrazine is uses as propellant and it if it turns into a vapor it can be toxic after the sift test they will notify the rest of the Convoy when it's safe to approach and then they're going to check the winds make sure the entire landing and Recovery team is staged U range from the direction the wind is blowing for added protection now everyone out there is part of a different color team and they wear vest with that color so it's very obvious who does what so the next up is the silver team and their first job is to ground the spacecraft Starliner will be powered down but there could be some residual electricity so before anyone can touch it they will ground it and discharge it teams here on the ground are reporting that um everything is getting into good configuration for the deorbit burn that's now just about um 6 and a half minutes away uh going on uh with the with what we were saying we also we have the blue team that documenting that documents everything that's going on at the Landing site these are photographers from both Boeing and NASA who have situational awareness cameras and again here's a a current view of those teams all um ready to deploy at Landing yeah that's the holding site that we were mentioning and then of course you can see um the mountains there in the background in this black and white View and the Green Team hooks up the HVAC trailers to Starliner to get cooling on it but their first job is to put up an environmental enclosure on the spacecraft and that enclosure looks a lot like a big inflatable it wraps around the vehicle to get cool air around it and make sure the critical systems don't overheat then the red team opens the hatch that is mostly uh Boeing fire rescue they will back up the mobile access platform to Star liner's hatch giving the team access and Starliner will be bringing back more than 900 lbs of cargo including a nitrogen oxygen recharge system or what we call noris tank that NASA um will service and refill for future space station needs the teams will unload that cargo before Starliner heads back to Florida just over 5 minutes to go now until tonight's uh 10:17 p.m. central Time deorbit Burn team here on the ground reports that Starliner has gotten into the right attitude uh kind of the right way it's pointing uh for that burn so everything is looking good we're on track for uh landing at 11:00 p.m. central midnight Eastern deorbit burn is coming up they fire the thrusters some thrusters for like a minute to slow it down that's coming up in less than five minutes uh the deorbit burn is coming up thanks Luca Lucia herzo and bbop and Rocksteady for your support I really appreciate that thank you I'm going to adjust my clock because they keep saying the landing is at midnight and not at 12:03 so I'm going to take three minutes off of the clock uh for the time here should say there I just adjusted the countdown clock because they keep saying it's going to be midnight eastern time that is a it's dark out there at White Sand's Missile Range but they have cameras that can see at night just a couple minutes or four minutes left to go until the deorbit burn we're going to check in once again with the landing team and Lea Cheshire and Josh Barrett thanks Brandy yeah we are out here uh just waiting in the Convoy area now most of the team is taking part in a safety briefing right now as we prepare to uh watch the deorbit burn and the re-entry and then move in toward the spacecraft like you mentioned it's really dark out here Josh and I were just able to take in the really beautiful sight of uh the Milky Way it's so dark so once the capsule starts to reenter the Earth's atmosphere we expect we expect to have a pretty good view of the streak um as that plasma builds up around the capsule itself that's right we should be seeing it come just over the Southwest Horizon right through the saddle of kind of the mountains uh that are just overlooking the mountain range here and uh remembering back to of1 kind of the view that we should be having here is that we'll hear the Sonic booms as well after we see kind of that plasma envelope and then pretty quickly afterward it is pretty remarkable how quickly it does end up over our heads uh we'll see the flashes from uh the mortars uh which deploy those uh Ford heat shield parachutes which take the the fort heat shield off um then we start hearing those mortors or those mortars and then the the uh parachutes start to deploy um and then it's kind of slow motion from there as it drifts down and we're seeing a lot of movement as teams have just completed that safety briefing here they're now all walking to join us at the Convoy uh so it looks like we are just a few minutes away from the deorbit show is really getting on the road soon so with that we're going to turn it back in Houston here see them all walking here right there we are uh just over 2 minutes away from the deorbit burn at this point uh Starliner has moved well away from the International Space Station and quite a few kilometers ahead of it as well we had a number of uh smaller Burns to ensure that Starliner was at a safe distance away from the space station before it performs performs the deorbit burn that will bring it out of orbit and on its Journey back to Earth flight director Rick henling and his team expect starine lers orbital maneuvering attitude control thrusters also called omx to fire around 10:17 central time pushing the spacecraft out of its orbital flight path and onto its journey home this deorbit burn will set us up for a touchdown time of about 11 p.m. central or 10 p.m. Mountain Daylight time out there in White Sands New Mexico once it's there control teams in Houston will begin powering off starliners radiators and solar rays as the spacecraft now has enough power to get home and sublimator will be taking over cooling they use water to cool the cabin Starliner is also uh as we said now in the correct attitude for performing the deorbit burn and at this point service module and crew capsule are still attached to each other four of the service modules 12 AF basting orbital maneuvering and attitude control engines are going to be powering the deorbit burn allowing them to separate safely the deorbit burn is about 1500b thrusters meaning this burn will take about 6,000 lbs of thrust slowing Starliner from its current orbital velocity and bringing it back to Earth's atmosphere for a smooth Landing the small reaction control system or RCS thrusters assist here in holding Starliner in the correct attitude during this test flight our teams ran roughly a million computer mod model simulations showing all the different Thruster combinations possible for a safe return to Earth today o look at that shot just 20 seconds now until the burn starts 20 seconds till deorbit burn guys again deit bur those orbital maneuvering and attitude control thrusters deorbit burn about to start it'll take like a minute to slow down the spacecraft about to start now deorbit burn get ready four orbital maneuvering and attitude control thrusters on liner service module are now firing slow debit burn is capsule against its Journey back to Earth take about the deorbit burn is happening now we're hearing a good all good uh all thrusters firing well so far the four thrusters are firing hear those uh those representation of those thrusters firing Starliner is maintaining its attitude and as those large orbital maneuvering thrusters are firing smaller reaction control system thrusters are also working keeping the spacecraft in the correct position for the burn oo so the thrusters are firing they are slowing down the spacecraft right now one a one minute deorbit burn they got their graphic real time representation of it up is that it is that it done what's happening and we did see the uh dber burn cut off successfully teams here on the ground reporting a good burn Starlin now on it way to wh sand space Harbor in New Mexico and a planned touchdown at about 11:00 p.m. central midnight Eastern Time wow deorbit burn successful guys deorbit burn successful how about that so it's on its way 40 minutes look there is a NASA on Flight Radar 24 that is a NASA plane flying around there which is going to give us I guess some I that has a camera on it that plane one or more cameras that is a NASA plane flying around the White Sands Missile Range that will help give us a view of the spacecraft once it gets next up on the to-do for tonight is the separation of the service module when the service module's job done it'll be disposed up over the Pacific Ocean leaving the uncrewed crew module to carry on alone in addition to all other jobs the service module has spent the flight protecting the crew module's heat shield Jing it uncovers that critical piece of equipment allowing it to shelter the spacecraft as it begins traveling back through the Earth's atmosphere the crew module will then make its final attitude adjustments to make sure the heat shield is at exactly the right angle to provide that protection and those fine-tuned adjustments are really just a strong capability of Starliner guidance navigation and control system in fact on the two previous flights Starliner made Bullseye Landings thanks to that system Starliner is maneuvering into position for that jettison at this time okay it's about to get rid of its service module part of it's going to just it's going to get rid of part of it which is going to fly away fall away I wonder they if they'll have a Graphic of it or they'll just tell us it happen we're going to be able to see the spacecraft once it goes through the atmosphere once it re-enters because then like planes will be able to see it and other cameras we can't see it when it's not it has reporting that uh Starliner is in a good attitude pointing the right direction for the service module separation and the service module has just J aend separated service modes it will burn up during re-entry over a remote part of the Pacific Ocean and Starliner will continue on its path to New Mexico where the landing and Recovery team is waiting for Touchdown Starliner is now angling itself and its heat shield for re-entry so the service module G is coming up in just about 10 minutes that's the hottest part of the re-entry process with Starliner heat shield reaching about 3,000 de to protect Starliner from those heat loads the spacecraft has what's called an ablative heat shield the outer surface of that Shield heats up to a gas which then carries the heat away from the crew module through convection and our team calls this process a game of Threes because during entry interface the heat shield will handle those temperatures of about 3,000 de but it will convert that heat to about 300° with only 3 Ines of a blader and because of this protection during this hottest part of re-entry the inside of the spacecraft remains at about room temperature wow when Starliner returned from its last two flights the capsules landed with two black stripes up the sides indicating the heat shield was a bladed as intended so we do expect to see that again today and the team considers that a bit of a badge of honor so we're approaching the hottest part of the whole entry Landing process there is no crew on this it is uncrewed this is an UNC crude spacecraft because NASA was not confident enough in the spacecraft to have it bring the astronauts the two astronauts it took up to the space station back down again so they are going to be there until February of 2025 and they're going to come down in a SpaceX ship so this spacecraft is coming down by itself with no crew and this is live this was supposed to uh supposed to have the supposed to stay up there for eight around eight days and then come back down that was in June but it had some Thruster issues and helium leak issues so NASA ultimately was not confident enough to put the astronauts on it and bring them back down in this spacecraft we haven't heard anything for a little while is that a bad sign that we haven't heard anything in a little while I don't know Ruth says no it's not a bad sign because they were talking pretty much Non-Stop and it's been a couple minutes well there is a time when there's several minutes where we we can't hear from communication's blackout but I I think they were they would announce that yeah the communications blackout is not for like 20 minutes that's supposed to be around 11:47 Eastern Time H once again uh we did see uh Starliner deorbit or uh performance deorbit burn on time at 10:17 p.m. central Time and then quickly turned around and jettison its surface module now that it has performed its Duty over the course of the mission we are still about uh 20 minutes away from entry interface but things will start to happen quickly after that about 4 minutes after we go into the entry interface the heat from Starliner reentry will become so intense that the plasma will begin to form around the spacecraft causing a blackout in Communications with Starliner for about 4 and a half minutes and after that we'll see Starliner Starliner jettison its forward heat shield that's been protecting the parachutes during great entry then when Starliner is around 30,000 ft above the ground the spacecraft's par Ute sequence will begin two drone par drog parachutes rather will uh start slowing Starliner down and then they'll detach and three main parachutes will deploy and inflate at about 3,000 ft off the ground the base heat shield jettison exposing the airbags and then at touchdown those airbags absorb the initial force of Landing cushioning the spacecraft for a soft safe return to Earth so it's not doing re-entry yet but it will be soon this um this plane this NASA plane is just kind of circling around here on Flight Radar 24 oops uh that plane is going to help take some video of the uh of the space star liner about 20 13 Mi above the uh South Pacific Ocean it's just past the southernmost portion of this final orbit coming around the uh southern coast of Australia and now is going to begin making its way northward towards uh the west coast of the United States for that um landing at 11:00 p.m. central Time midnight eastern time at wh sand space Harbor in New Mexico again we've had the de over burn that took place just as planned at 10:17 a 59c burn that uh changed the uh ster liner speed by about uh 290 mph 130 m/s that made way for the service module separation and the next Milestone we'll be watching for is the entry interface coming up around 10:45 still about 10 minutes away everything's gone well so far no nothing messed up so far so everything's going fine so far about a half an hour it should be on the ground uh you know hopefully it survives re-entry all right but so far so so good hey thanks Jersey Texas for being a member thanks to all of you for tuning in uh oh there is the uh Landing the general Landing here of the recovery forces staged uh near The Landing site ready to move in one Starliner touches down we are taking off Milestones as expected for that uh 11:00 p.m. central midnight Eastern or 10 p.m. mountain time touchdown today in New Mexico so you can see some people there this is a some sort of night vision camera again Starliner performed at deorbit burn about 12 minutes ago the thrusters performed nominally and the flight home is going smooth hey thanks so much Joseph fantino yeah Joseph NASA we covered their announcement when they announced that they weren't going to have the uh astronauts come home um they just didn't have enough confidence they didn't have the confidence they needed to that the Starliner was safe enough because there had been some issues with the Starliner on the way up involving thrusters and um helium leaks and I believe especially with the thrusters they just if I remember right they just didn't feel that they had a solid enough grasp on what went wrong with the thrusters and they couldn't feel that they could be confident enough with what they knew that everything would work the way it was supposed to so I don't know the exact level of risk they they just thought there was too much uncertainty because there had been issues um on the way up with thrusters and also helium leaks but I think the thrusters was the bigger problem for them if I remember the press conference right and they just they they were trying to diagnose the spacecraft from on the ground when the spacecraft is up at the International Space Station and they did tests on the ground and and they just again they couldn't get to a place where they felt they understood was going on well enough that they could be confident enough that they were okay bringing the astronauts down in that spacecraft Boeing said it would be fine Boeing said it would be fine Boeing was fine with the astronauts coming down on it but NASA just was not at that place uh they they spent months researching what had gone wrong uh trying to understand better we're still about 14 minutes away from the entry interface which is our next Milestone I think I said earlier that we were 10 minutes away that was a mistake um but about 14 minutes from now we'll be experiencing the uh the atmosphere for the first time since Starliner launched and since we do have a little time we're going to check back in with the landing team Lee and Josh how are things going out there oh look thanks that was a great view of the uh Landing conv boy all lined up I was just watching some of the gold team members getting suited up as you mentioned earlier that's going to be the first team to come in and inspect the vehicle they're sniffing for those um hyper gools or any of those dangerous fumes before the rest of the teams get to go to move in and approach the capsule of course it's kind of a waiting game right now as we are still waiting to spot Starliner uh coming from the southwest so a lot of us are outside of the Convoy right now and keeping our eyes on the skies yeah that's right we're we've got about just under probably three dozen vehicles I all lined up in three rows just waiting to get that touchdown signal again going through that Convoy list that you guys went through already so well behind that gold team after starliners declared safe the silver team moves in and they do the electrical grounding they'll also stabilize the vehicle just in case the airbag start deflating we make sure that the hatch has uh a good stable orientation for red team to come in and they're the ones with the hatch orientation uh and once uh the red team establishes hatch access actually the silver team has a fun job tonight in the dark they're going to go start looking for the pieces that came off of Starliner those heat shields uh some of those Lids from those those parachute mortars uh and then after that after red team has hatch access and opens up the hatch uh NASA's ISS program folks are going to come in for the cardo inspection so again we are expecting to start seeing Starliner coming across the Horizon around the time that entry interface begins but until then just wanted to give you guys a hit from The Landing site and the latest that we have going on here so we'll toss it back over to you in Mission Control Houston thanks so much Le and Josh we are watching for that entry interface as well we're now about uh 12 minutes away we should start seeing it in 12 minutes I guess Starliner continuing to make good progress uh following at 10:17 p.m. central Time D orbit burn thanks to Aaron Easton and Ben Linton by the way again we're looking at the landing and Recovery team set up at the holding Zone there at White Sands Josh and Leah are embedded with that Convoy and they will make a very strategic move toward the spacecraft after touchdown first stopping at about the 500 foot Mark and then they'll get the go to move forward to the 150t mark and then once the vehicle is considered safe they will move in I just looked it up and uh on an AP article about why they didn't have the astronauts coming home on this craft and was really concerned about they had uncertainty if the thrusters would perform properly that's basically it too much uncertainty about Thruster performance if the thrusters would perform as they're supposed to on the way down so NASA decided to not put the astronauts on the Starliner and keep them up there until February where they'll fly back the two astronauts will fly back on a um SpaceX ship in February thank you to April snail for your support as well as well as Aaron Easton and Ben Linton and all of our Ben Linton and all of our moderators too thank you um with the new orbit burn complete and uh the service mod module separated the spacecraft's heat shield is now exposed and ready to begin experiencing the atmosphere again uh the Starliner is going to make some final attitude adjustments that keep that heat shield pointing at exactly the right angle reentry is is entry interface again just coming up in a few minutes at 400,000 ft above Earth Starliner faces temperatures of 3000° f from the plasma created by air friction around the spacecraft but Starliner can handle that heat with its heat shield which is made of an ablade of material designed to keep the inside of the spacecraft at about 70° few minutes later star will experience an expected blackout in Communications and that will last for about 4 and 1/2 minutes at 30,000 ft and just 11 minutes before landing Starliner jettison its forward heat shield exposing the spacecraft's parachute system then two drove shoots will deploy in increasing drag and significantly slowing down Starliner then three pilot parachutes will pull out the main shoots allowing spacecraft to continue its slow and steady descent for another 8,000 ft towards the landing Zone and once the main parachutes are fully inflated Starliner bucket handle releases and what that does is it just basically levels out the spacecraft ahead of touchdown and then the base heat shield that protected Starliner through re-entry will separate at about 3,000 ft uncovering The Landing airbags those airbags of course will fill with nitrogen allowing for Starliner to land softly and safely there in the sand less than 10 minutes to go now before we do get to that entry interface point and uh now just 20 24 and a half minutes away from The Landing at wh sand space Harbor everything's pretty quiet in the room which is a good sign things are continuing to go smoothly as Starliner begins making it way making its way back to Earth wow we're getting much closer guys about 22 minutes until it's supposed to land and before that we will be seeing it in the sky um via the NASA cameras there's a NASA plane flying around here oops sorry you're taking to look there at flight directors Rick henfling on the left speaking with Mike Lamers on the right Rick is the flight director for this Landing operation Mike is weather flight director they are tag teaming this operation team has been keeping a close eye on weather at the Landing site but everything uh looks pretty good for tonight's touchdown yeah about 79° Fahrenheit out there they reported 10 miles visibility it's landing at wh Sand's Missile Range are within the limits so we are looking good for a touchdown in New Mex com up right about 11:00 p.m. central Time white sand space Harbor and that is the recovery some of the recovery team there waiting to go get it but no crew on it remember no crew on it so far so good with the with the flight down well you know they had one Thruster not working see it says White Sands New Mexico Starliner Landing site they had one Thruster not working but they said they have redundant thrusters to back that up thank you Aaron Easton Aaron says how are they controlling the the craft I I do believe they have some degree of control over it I think it's I think it's Houston I I think 7 minutes to go now in tool entry interface and then uh that intense heating will start about 2 minutes after we do begin the interface that'll last about 4 and A2 minutes during which time we'll be in a blackout there's no live video of The Craft right now well we'll get it once it is currently about 130 miles 149 miles rather above uh the Pacific Ocean heading northward towards the western coast of the United States and it's touchdown in New Mexico they just said they were doing some adjustments to the attitude the orientation of it which suggests that they are controlling it um so um thank you to laugh till you blank Chris Peacock and Aaron Easton for your support thank you 20 minutes around 20 minutes till landing and sooner than that we will be seeing once once it makes it through into the once it gets through the re-entry process where it's very hot and gets in gets gets through that process enough here at the trajectory there on the left of your screen you can see that line that crosses over the Baja Peninsula and that is the track Starliner will take as it makes its way into New Mexico as it gets closer to the ground people living in the area might get um a bright shot of Starliner coming back through the atmosphere and Landing there in White Sands New Mexico you can also see there in the center of the screen the uh to-do list basically before before we do get to Landing the service module separation highlighted in green because that one's already taken place and next up is the entry interface about 5 minutes away from now wow and flight controllers here in the room are reporting good attitude for that entry interface coming up again in just under five minutes by good attitude they mean the way that the the orientation which way the spacecraft is facing it needs to be facing the right way no they don't land in the ocean I believe this is the first American spacecraft that has uh that has been designed to land to to land on land I think I think we read that earlier today but don't hold me to it but I think we read that earlier today this is designed to land on land it actually uh has airbags parachutes and airbags we we should be seeing the parachutes in the airbags eventually see some people there in the recovery team but uh the shuttle landed on land maybe oh you know what I think it's the first crew capsule the first crew capsule American Crew capsule designed to land on land I think that's what it was I'll have to look it up but I believe what I read on I think it was a NASA site said it was the first crew capsule designed to land on land thanks for mentioning that to me that makes more sense Sher says does this mean the astronauts could have made it back since the landing looks like a success well it hasn't gotten back yet but I mean even if this does come back and it's safe that doesn't I mean that doesn't mean there wasn't a chance of something happening so I don't think NASA if it lands safely is going to be like oh we're so stupid because it Landing safely once doesn't mean that there wasn't risk um so NASA just said they did not have enough they with the information they had they could not be confident enough in the thrusters so you know it Landing safely if it does does not change the amount of information NASA had two and a half minutes left before Starliner begins to fill the effects of the Earth's atmosphere again everything uh continuing to go smoothly flight controllers here in the room are quiet as they're working through their steps but all uh going well so far Starliner in position to experiencing that heat from re-entry now less than 100 miles above the Earth and uh heading towards the Baja Peninsula in about two minutes we'll flying over that before landing in New Mexico in about 2 minutes it'll start feeling the effects of the atmosphere as it makes 17 minutes to go into landing she said 17 minutes until Landing so I should I should adjust my well they might be behind I don't know I'm going to to leave my clock the same hey thank you Brian beelman and Randy Hearn Randy says first capsu will land on land but the design has been around in us for years that's what Randy Hearn says thank you so much Randy maybe we can look up look at that up in the post show so in just like a minute or so it's going to start feeling the heat effect of the re-entry and then once it after a few minutes I think after about five minutes we'll be able see it there's like a five roughly F four or five minute communication blackout wow get ready guys we are getting very close now we are getting very close now less than a minute now until we begin uh entry interface less than a minute again about 2 minutes after after entry interface starts we'll begin seeing the heating uh really get intense and we'll go into a 4 and 1/ half minute blackout wow all right all right guys it's really getting down to it now hopefully it'll survive re-entry fine oo some more trucks and people anytime now they're it's GNA it's GNA they're going to announce that it's feeling the heat effects of the re-entry coming back into the atmosphere I think they're the ground reporting entry interface has begun they're seeing good range entry interface has begun it's starting to feel the heat of the atmosphere as it comes back in all right guys in a minute or two they'll say there's a communication black view from the uh Landing site or the the team's uh getting ready to move out to The Landing site here a little better idea from this view of exactly how dark it is out there with all the lights of the vehicle Shining a minute and a half until we move into the blackout period for Starliner 90 seconds until the four to five minute minutes until we land in White Sands New Mexico 14 and 12 minutes till Landing okay I got to adjust my clock I got to adjust my clock a little bit star laner enters Earth's atmosphere at 17 times the speed of sound which could create a Sonic Boom for folks living in the area it will then be slowed down by parachutes to a speed very similar to what you might experience while going down an elevator inside a high-rise building the vehicle then comes to a safe comfortable stop at Landing all right guys it's just about Communications blackout time and then about about five minutes or so we should start seeing live shots of this thing in the sky how about that 30 seconds now until the uh blackout period begin due to the compression of friction and friction of the air the molecules generate a very hot plasma that uh causes the red orange glow you often see appear in postflight imagery on many spacecraft although we won't get to see that tonight uh it will happen causes an expected communication Dropout this one will last 4 and 1/2 minutes as the vehicle uh goes through a time when plasma interferes with a satellite signal we expect that to blank out to end around 10:52 p.m. central okay this is also the time that I mentioned earlier where a Starliner in the past two flights has gotten that black um Mark along the sides of it and that just really proves to our team that the ablative heat shield or the a blade of material um around Starliner is is doing its job and the heat shield is pushing that plasma away there is no crew on the Starliner NASA chose to not have the crew fly back because they did not they thought it was too risky to use this spacecraft it's blackout time again uh last about four and a half minutes we've got uh about 3 and a half left of it after that uh the Milestones will be ing for include a Ford heat shield jettison at 1056 when ster liner is about 4.3 Mi above the Earth very soon after that uh almost immediately drug shoots deploy those uh give the give a little bit of an initial slow down to the vehicle before the really uh large main parachutes deploy that happens when the starliners is about 2 and a half miles above the Earth so they're in Communications blackout right now for like another two or 3 minutes it is very hot one of our viewers mentioned there is a second plane there's two planes flying around in the area there are two planes one is NASA I'm guessing the other one is affiliated with NASA flying in the area of the landing right there those are those are the two planes right there those are the two planes right there flying around I think they both have cameras on them and will'll give us views of the spacecraft in the sky in a couple minutes those two planes right there top one NASA plane I think the bottom one is also a NASA plane too one's at 32,000 ft one is at 9700 ft that is Flight Radar 24 thanks to the viewer for mention it guys we're very close thank you so much Brian beelman very kind of you Brian also Brian beelman liad thank uh thank you so much for your support or Lieutenant head Lieutenant head ran bman thank you is this uh is a live view from the International Space Station where we're able to get a view of uh Starliner track as it comes in we are now less than 10 minutes away from landing at the White Sands at space Harbor scheduled for uh 10 or 11:00 p.m Central what is this also uh getting reports that the WB 57 is also able to see Starliner now as it begins coming in for its uh for its Landing we've still got just about a minute left to go before star liner comes out of its uh blackout period there it is that that's it that's it right there I guess look at this wow oh my gosh we're seeing it guys we're seeing it amazing they got different different angles of it look at this multiple angles from NASA we can see it and this is the view from the wb-57 one of NASA's aircraft that is uh at the uh Landing s has been uh been uh staged and ready to pick a Starliner or pick up the view of Starliner as it comes in and that is what we are seeing now that's the plane on flight radar that's the 32,000 ft High plane on flight radar this plane is at 32,000 continue to uh give us a view until the drog parachutes deploy and then we hope to pick it up with the Cessna that is also in the area now which view is this look at this WOW but the the WB the wb-57 is a plane on flight rad controllers here in the room are reporting that we are out of that blackout period and everything is looking good everything's looking good guys as she returns to earth about seven minutes or so until it lands wow so far so good again this is a view from the w V 57 the WV 57 is the top plane right here see the plane on the top see the plane on the top right there the plane on the top right there is a WB 57 showing a beautiful streak across the sky as she returns to White Sands New Mexico that was Flight Radar 24 you can see it on there look at this WOW everything is good so no no if if if the test flight had gone well we would have been watching this minutes aways ago the forward heat shield jet that's the next Milestone we're looking for Starliner is currently about 27 miles above the earth and the team at uh White Sands reporting that they have seen it we got a tally hole from them uh reported uh remotely so White Sands people on the ground can see itess they are seeing Starliner from the ground there in New Mexico yes is seen on the ground uh originally there were supposed to be two astronauts returning on this flight but NASA chose not to do it crazy though you see it in space you hours ago we saw it undock from the space station now we're seeing it here from Earth getting close to Landing wow incredible look at this view this view is coming from the Cessna that's also in the area picking up uh star now Starliner now from its lower altitude about 6,000 ft above whereas the WB 57 is about 16,000 ft up we are now just uh 6 minutes and 22 seconds away from Landing my clock's a little fast my clock's about 30 seconds fast just be a couple minutes away from the forward heat still jettison which will bring on the drove parachute deploy followed by the main parachutes look at this thing look at this thing wow crazy crazy and the strobe lights on Starliner are now on the strobe lights are on on Starliner six hours ago we saw it detach from the space station Starliner is now over the landing site and that strobe light will help the teams actually track star liner on the ground because it is very dark out there all right now about 12 miles above uh The Landing site and just 5 minutes away from Landing 5 minutes from Landing with there going to be some parachutes deploying and then it'll land on airbags there's some initial parachutes that slow it down then some some other parachutes and then there's airbags it'll lose its bottom heat shield and then the airbags will deploy wow too bad it's not the daytime but what can you do watching now for the forward heat shield jettison that should be coming up uh again making way from for the parachute deployment that's the one heat shield on the top of it is going to leak get off and then the parachutes deploy and then the bottom heat oh look at this wow then the bottom heat shield will eventually be jettison look at this all right and wow action your Senor screen wow and drugs out wow parachutes oh my gosh crazy really interesting view of this uh coming down from the WB 57 see those two drug parachutes uh now deployed they slow the uh vehicle down crazy initially until it gets to a uh a safe uh speed for the enormous main parachutes to to follow look at that incredible incredible incredible to think of people being on that nobody's on it right now but they're supposed to eventually be on it about four minutes to go until touchdown look at this it has never landed with people on it this was its first now back to A View From the Cessna aircraft in the uh vicinity of the landing site again this is a A View From a little lower than the WB 57 we were seeing This Is A View From the second plane on flight radar that's at uh 9800 see here is the three main parachutes come out and everything will happen pretty quickly from that point on those two parachutes are meant to slow it down I think those are drog parachutes I think that's what they're called for a fast moving object and then after those Mains are out we'll see the uh bottom heat shield that has been protecting uh Starliner through its journey through the atmosphere come off that makes way for the landing airbags to deploy so next we have three parachutes there's the main parachutes and there's the main parachutes there on your screen we see three out currently reefing wow look at the capsule it's going to lose the bottom heat shield and then the airbags are going to deploy crazy and the teams uh Landing uh recovery teams report that they heard uh booms as those came out three good Mains fully open there you can see Starliner in a slight tilt so we're going to see the rotation handle move here shortly and it will level out Starliner but three good parachutes looking great amazing that this thing works just a little over two minutes until the expected Landing time and we heard the rotational handle has been released so you can see that uh tilt evened out next up the heat sheld jettison look at the bottom the heat Shield's going to uh heat shield off the bottom there's a heat shield go just just went off now the airbags are going to come out way for the airbag inflation nice to see that you can see the airbags deploying there on your screen those airbags are filled with nitrogen as they guide Starliner safely back to the desert floor wow look at this look at this crazy well well they did a good job they did a good job good job Starliner good job NASA and Boeing wow you see the airbags you can see them you can see the airbags just a beautiful sight as Starliner makes its way to the Sands of New Mexico it's landing at wh sand space Harbor and flight controllers confirming six good airbags six good airbags all sixing coming to us from the Cessna we've got uh about just about a minute left to go until the expected touchdown be watching for that time for you it's right just midnight right now right on time the originally said 1203 then they said midnight but it's going to be right around then look at this supposed to slow down to four miles an hour when it lands just incredible technology is amazing shout out to the people who figured out how to do this look at that it really is crazy because again six hours ago we watched this thing uh separate itself from the uh from the space station six hours ago it was up at the space station now it's now it's here just about 15 seconds away from expected touchdown oh camera angle there we go get ready for Touchdown here you're seeing the ground there in your screen as we get closer it's getting closer H is it going to touch down is it going to stay upright oh look at that angle wow looks nice here we go oh gently gently gently gon to land land on those soft airbags it has slowed down it's nerve-wracking even without people on it could you imagine if there were people on it I wonder if the two astronauts are watching it oh there we go touchdown touchdown Starliner is back on Earth that Landing coming at 11:01 and 35 seconds Central Time 10:01 and 31 seconds mountain time at White Sand breaking news at the US Army's Missile Range in New Mexico our landing and Recovery teams will now wait for clearance before making their way to the spacecraft one of the changes uh required with no crew on board is that the team here in the flight control room will be the ones to uh command the uh parachute uh to be cut away so that uh the wind doesn't pull the capsule along but uh that's no problem for them so uh now with the Starliner down they can begin working on some of the post Landing to do items wow again we saw Starliner touchdown at 11:01 p.m. central Time that's uh 1 minute after midnight eastern Time or 10:01 PM Central at the Landing site in New Mexico that was pretty cool that was pretty cool great job great job man it's amazing by the way quick thanks to Mandy and Randy Hearn This Is A View From the Cessna still watching the drones slowly make their own way down uh those of course the uh the drog parachutes that uh preceded the main parachutes uh first slowing Starliner down before the large parachutes opened these are the two drog parachutes that those are the first parachutes when it's moving very fast they could really just a Flawless and beautiful Descent of Starliner today even heard some cheers and clapping in the background I'm sure they're very extraordinarily happy you know they're not like shouting on on the broadcast but I'm sure they're really psyched these two parachutes are the parachutes that helped slow it down and I guess it gets rid of them when the main parachutes come out around then and these just float down to the ground but these are not these are just the parachutes it would that were on that it used before I don't believe those are carrying anything they're just the parachutes but man wow there's supposed to be a a news conference coming up from NASA I mean look it's it's good it's it's great to see it work right it's great to see The Landing this again is the drug parachute still uh still making their way to the ground after Starliner has touchdown with its main parachutes touchdown came at 11:01 p.m. Central Time the team here uh in Mission Control will be working through some post Landing steps now one of our viewers said it's good that Boeing needed this we're not really aware of any major problems that happened on on the on the whole descent I mean there was one Thruster they said that wasn't working but they had a backup for it there it is right there wow amazing just amazing view here of Starliner at its Landing site in uh White Sands at space Harbor Landing recovery teams will soon begin making its way out to them to uh begin recovering the spacecraft we'll see them go out there team here in Mission Control is pulling right now to see if everybody is ready to power off the vehicle at the flight control team has taken over with the uh with the uh lack of crew on board once the spacecraft is powered down they will be transitioning control of the spacecraft over to the landing and Recovery team and it's a little difficult to see in this shot but there is a strobe light on Starliner that will help the teams follow it out there I'm just fixing fixing this here there we go there's our headline there and the uh recovery team is on the move but I think uh Le chesar and Josh Barrett our colleagues out there may be able to give us one last update Josh can you hear us great landing of calypso I don't think there obviously we did have really a great show we were able to see that you were watching too from the wb7 from the Cessna from the International Space Station but can I interrup you yes concur it's been a really amazing day ah they interrupted I some we were hearing a bit from space to ground there uh but I think they've concluded unfortunately uh a recording of that for uh folks uh listening at home but Leah go ahead with your update I think Sunny Williams was talking and they were having somebody talk over Sunny Williams MC here Rick just wanted to offer that he's got one more hour here that was sunny Williams his birthday here yeah and that's what counts Sunny Williams it was a good Landing it's pretty awesome Sunny Williams one of the two astronauts are the best you are the best that's thank you Sunny Williams there uh offering a slightly early happy birthday to Flat director Rick hling he will be uh celebrating his birthday on September 7th but technically in Houston we're still a little less than an hour away from that uh they are of course already um on uh uh September 7th in at the International Space Station but Leah if you were still with us we will still take that update if you can give it to us yeah so as I was saying we got to see the capsule and and the plasma Trail coming up over the mountains uh from the southwest and uh we were all still standing outside the Convoy to watch that happen but the most unexpected part was when I could hear the main parachutes being deployed it was very Fain just a little bit of a rumble um but that strob BL really helped us identify Starliner as it was descending and it would reflect a little bit up onto those parachutes so we actually had a decent view as it was coming down under those shoots and now we are uh actually on the drive out and we can see the strobe light it's giving us a great direction as we head toward the capsule yeah that's right we are actually making our way down the uh former space shuttle Runway uh literally driving right down the middle of it uh Starliner is a little bit towards the southern end so we see that strobe uh kind of in the in the distance there um but we will make our way to the 500 foot Mark where gold team will will move in and begin their assessments and then uh once they declare that uh operations proximity operations can begin the recovery obstacle will really get underway and with that I think uh we were going to toss it back to you Brandy and Lauren if you don't hear it from us again tonight just wanted to say thanks for uh letting us be part of the broadcast and give you the perspective of all the hardworking ground teams both NASA and Boeing out here at White Sands in New Mexico so with that sending it back over to Mission Control Houston thanks so much Josh and Leah it's great to see Starliner home and uh I I envy you the up close view but we appreciate your updates I do too star laner Starliner has returned safely well done to the entire team for completing the mission with a successful undocking deorbit and Landing Starliner has once again proven herself a safe ride to and from space on behalf of the entire Boeing team welcome home Calypso so that person's with Bo and with that we also wrap up our coverage tonight um we would like for you to stay tuned for our 12 uh30 a.m. post Landing news conference that is uh 12:30 a.m. Central Time so about an hour and a half little less an hour and a half from now when we'll be giving you uh final uh on um the activities of the night but Starliner is Home Again The Landing came at 11:01 p.m. central Time and with that we will sign off thank you so much for following along with us this is Michigan Houston All right so we're going to have to I don't we might take a break here or something but it's a the the news conference is in an hour and 20 minutes an hour and 20 minutes I thought too I was like oh 12:30 Eastern that's fine but they said 12:30 Central I mean I'm sure they're busy and have to do stuff anyways um so hey successful Landing by the way let me take some comments from you guys successful Landing all right let me do this let's do this let's hold on hold on a second here you can see two astronauts are left behind in space as Boeing's troubled capsule returns to earth empty that's from Associated Press um so wow it worked the landing was successful um so Sunny Williams was talking some but it was like they were talking to the they were interviewing the correspondent at the L site when Sunny Williams was talking so we couldn't hear Sunny Williams she is one of the two astronauts who went up in the Boeing star liner and is now basically stuck at the space station until February when they can come down on a SpaceX air spacecraft um oops oh sorry I sorry so I gotta fix the headline I fixed the headline on like one in one place but I got to fix it in the other places see that's that's correct that headline is correct uh but let me just fix it here sorry uh hold on let me do this that's going to do this everything's messed up everything's messed up just give me a second all there there there you go that one's done that's fixed let me just fix it on this one too before I forget that's obviously not going to work I got to fix it everywhere all right uh here by the way a a quick thanks to uh lady red for your support and Rusty 1220 and Tina elain and espre and USA extreme weather and Randy Hearn and Mandy and Brian beelman and red squirrel 82 thank you for your support and um also uh and JB thank you JB and also um diet ginger Dale J giet Ginger D said I wouldn't get any Boeing taxi cab right now let everyone a Boeing spaceship that's what our viewer diet ginger Dale said uh but this went well this went well thanks also expecting storms for your support in explodes 5 uh and government slave over there on Twitch and um before I take some comments from you guys let's just shout out our moderators who are here with us we have Ruth creasi is here thank you so much Ruth for being there uh on YouTube blinda belel and Larry on X over on Twitch we have moderating uh good luck duck oh we can if you want we can rewatch a little of the landing stuff uh good luck doc Mark and NC MC Brites Sarah thank you uh and over there on Facebook um Kay Lowry body Margaret Riley uh Ronald eggor and uh all of our other moderators huge thanks Diane oorth our subscriber on Facebook says that was amazing hey do you guys oh Oliver Frost is modding too thank you do you guys want to watch any of the of the landing again do you guys want to see any of that again with when the when like the parachutes came up and stuff because we can watch that again I can just play it for you again I don't care yes people want to see it so it's very easy to do uh so let's just let's do that let's let's let's put the replay back up there and here I'm just going to throw it up there right now but I have to throw up that it's a replay so this is a replay uh let me put oh sorry I have to do this I have to do it this way so I got to put me up there and then I got to change the word to replay of Landing Oh no I got to go back farther sorry that was the that was the that was the little parachutes the small parachutes the the two initial ones so let me just get do this so I'm going to say replay of Landing okay good good good and I'm going to put this up right over here here right up here so people can see that it's a replay of the landing and drog shoots one of our viewers said so uh do you want me to put want me to put the sound on do you want the sound that the original audio from NASA on I can put that on too I'll put that on so I I'll go back a little bit here I think the audio is on right now they're just not saying anything on the recording okay so this you're going to see this is the replay of the landing and you'll see the parachutes come out shortly the the two initial I guess they're called drug parachutes can't come out shortly watching now for the forward heat shield Jennison that should be coming up uh again making way from for the parachute deployment did we see that heat shield fly off I don't know if you could see it in the shot the forward heat shield fly off all right there he is action you're seeing on your screen there it ISAT shield and droges out really interesting view of this hold on I want to see that one more time 57 see those two parachutes and let's watch that one more time did we see the heat shield come on I couldn't action you're see on your screen oh hold on I didn't go back far enough that should be coming up uh again making way from for the parachute deployment I couldn't tell what was the forward heat shield and what was the parachute initially so the forward and that action you're seeing on your screen forward heat shell and drugs out yeah so the I think the first thing the first thing that flew off was the forward heat shield it you think you're seeing a parachute but actually the first thing that looks like a parachute I think maybe the forward heat shield has its own parachute um but the thing I thought was the first parachute was actually not a par was not one of these two parachutes uh Big Owl brain says the first one is The Shield so that's what it seems like watch again one of our viewers wanted us to want me to play it in slow motion playback speed we'll go half speed on YouTube I'm playing it back at half speed now all right and that action you're see in your screen right there see that's the heat shield DRS out see that right so I think the heat shield has its own parachute anyways let's go back let's keep going that was very interesting by the way if you want you can go to NASA on YouTube and you can just if you guys want you can yourself go to NASA on YouTube you can put it on your big screen you can slow it down and play it as many times as you want let's keep going here really interesting view of this uh coming down from the WB 57 see those two drug parachutes uh now deployed they slow the uh vehicle down initially now one of our one of our viewers said it was a cover to protect the parachute but I I I don't it could have been something else but the heat shield is actually they had said before that the heat shield was cover ing the parachutes I believe a a safe speed for the enormous main parachutes to to follow eventually I it gets rid of the smaller parachutes which I'm sure are not that small and then we'll we'll see that the about four minutes to go until touchdown yeah so I I remember this part which is where we see there's a heat there's another heat shield now back from the Cessna aircraft in the the uh vicinity of the landing s again this is a yeah so so there's another heat shield a bigger one that pops off and let and lets the airbags so we'll see the three parachutes the main parachutes the bigger ones and then the bottom heat shield will just come off which we saw which we will see again and then the air Babs that was covering the airbags and then the airbags inflate a view from a little lower than the WB 57 we were seeing the next thing we're going to see here is the three main parachutes come out and everything will happen pretty quickly from that point on after those Mains are out we'll see the uh bottom heat shield that has been protecting uh Starliner through its journey through the atmosphere come off that makes way for the landing airbags to deoy there's the main parachutes right there and there's the main parachutes there on your screen we see three out currently reefing and the teams at the uh Landing uh recovery teams report that they heard uh booms as those came out three good Mains fully open there you can see Starliner in a slight tilt so we're going to see the rotation handle move here shortly and it will level out Starliner but three good parachutes looking great just a little over 2 minutes until the expected Landing time and we heard the rotational handle has been released so you can see that uh tilt evened out next up is the back heat shield jettison so look at the bottom right now see that let's let's watch that again there it goes I'm going to replay the bottom heat shield coming off watch this heat shield jettison wow and there it goes that again makes way for the airbag inflation and then the airbags infl you see the airbags deploying there on your screen let's watch that again there it goes next up is the back heat shield jettison and there it goes that again makes way for the airbag inflation nice to see that you can see the airbags deploying there on your screen those airbags are filled with nitrogen as they guide Starliner safely back to the desert floor someone said Look Out Below yeah that with that heat shield I think it's at that point it's about 3,000 ft above the ground when it does that and this is where just a beautiful sight as Starliner makes its way to the Sands of New Mexico and flight controllers confirming six good airbags few still coming to us from the cesna we've got uh about just about a minute left to go until the expected touchdown be watching for that time for you Lori Hawkins says it really is amazing Kaylee says imagine seeing this in front of you they're close to The Landing we're just replaying this coming up right now look at that Sarah migan says super cool Barry says it was traveling at 13,000 mph and landed at 4 miles hour just about 15 seconds away from expected touchdown you're seeing the ground there in your screen as we get closer here it comes right now watch the ground at the bottom you'll see it very shortly I remember it kind of came came very suddenly so slow imagine if you were on that crazy think about you're floating down at this point you're almost home right there touchdown Starliner is back on Earth that Landing coming at 11:01 and 35 seconds Central Time 10:01 and 31 seconds mountain time at White Sand space armor at the US Army's missile range in New Mexico our landing and Recovery teams will now wait for clearance before making their way to the spacecraft one of the changes uh required with no crew on board is that the team here in control room will be the ones to uh command the uh parachute uh to be cut away so that the wind doesn't pull the capsule along but uh they cut away the parachutes that's no problem for them so uh now with the with Starliner down they can begin working on some of the post Landing so there's a there's a press conference that's coming up in uh in um like an hour I'll probably just stay on the year and cover the press conference for those who want to watch it I might take a little break but might as well cover it we're here by the way thanks to um M Chan Our member um let me see if I can get you any updates also so this is oh and we were watching this before that that's when the um when the when the drogue parachutes were on their way down sorry yeah so I'll stay on the year for the uh for the press conference yeah the press the press conference is at one I'm going to put this out the press conference is at 1:30 a.m. let me put something on the screen that says that so people know uh press NASA press conference at 1:30 a.m. ET and I'll put that up there so people can see that that's what we're waiting for if I can get it up on the screen it's a little Annoying I'll leave it right there it's fine it's fine thank you ruth kafasi hey that's nice of you thank you Ruth thanks for moderating thanks to all of our moderators who've been there um let me I'll take some comments from you guys too um so uh let's see here and thanks to our new member Daniel James Ryan photography and thanks David Rivera as well uh distant Galaxy says I don't know why everyone is so suddenly so anti- booing they are still an American company advancing aircraft and spacecraft Technologies for everyone's benefit of course we make jokes about them and we like to see our oversight agencies giving them blank but I also sense a hatred beyond that it is unnecessary uh Su Tang Wong says there's so much to do and so much information to gather they'll be busy busy for months with this you know one of our viewers asked if they refurbish this spacecraft I don't know uh I don't know do they just do they reuse some of it and then build I mean a bunch of this is not there so this the the heat shields are gone the service module with the thrusters are on it it has been jettisoned so a bunch of it is not there anymore as to whether they reuse the crew capsule at all I don't know or do they just make another one there's only been three test flights ever of this and the last one was 2022 so I don't know uh assuming there is another test flight assuming there is another test flight I got to think at this point I got to think at this point with a successful Landing I would be surprised if there's not another test flight I mean if there was May you know if there was a big mishap maybe that might be different again I would be quite surprised now I'm not a space expert I just have a hard time believing that you know this went this this Landing went well and they'll be like we're done with we're done with it we're giving up on Starliner but who knows I don't know I don't know thank you Josh B Josh says if it's Boeing I'm not going uh Jeff bankson says why wouldn't they do continuous coverage until they arrived at the capsule yeah I I don't know why NASA doesn't do that I mean I'm sure they have their reasons but but I was hoping that they I was hoping they would just have like this on the screen until the press conference but we're this is a replay because they ended their stream but they're doing another stream for the press conference at 1:30 a.m. yes as Jo as as Joseph R Biden Jr our viewer says Dell space is a separate division from their aircraft division same company sep division um Gary says because there's nobody aboard yeah but I think I mean people like us I think would like to watch it I think it's interesting just to I mean if they have a camera out there I don't know if there's sensitive stuff they don't want to put out there or the company doesn't want to have it out there uh trk says they won't give up on Starliner for sure they need alternative Landing option apart from SpaceX yeah the point of hiring both SpaceX and Boeing to create uh these cap these spacecraft that could take astronauts to and from the space station is to have some redundancy built in so if there's a problem with one of them you can use the other one so that's they NASA does want to have two options um you know they would like they would certainly want it to work but it has been years delayed and and very over budget and NASA signed a fixed contract with them I believe so when it goes over budget now it's Boeing who has to pay the over budget although I guess one could argue that for example if if they there's the money you spend on it but there's also all the resources like let's say they you know if they if if they're doing more test flights that's going to be a lot of NASA people working on that who could be working on something else so if they ultimately never approve the Starliner that's a lot of you know Manpower time that's been put into it that could have been put into something else for example but we'll have to see if you watch the last couple of press conferences like we we we covered we've covered some recent press conferences on the Starliner and like that the questions about it are asked about like you know will you continue with them and that kind of thing but yeah so I'm going to post a link to an article I haven't even read the article yet if you want to read it I think krie potit our viewer sent it to me it's an article from September 5th from like two days ago and it's the headline is after another Boeing Mission sorry after another Boeing letdown NASA isn't ready to buy more Starliner missions Boeing could earn nearly $2 billion more from NASA if it fully executes on the Starliner contract so um and the article does says in ARS Technica NASA officials haven't said whether they will require Boeing to launch another Starliner test flight before certifying the spacecraft for the first you know the first real take the uh for the first uh operational crew missions I would also be surprised if NASA certifies this without having another test flight I mean just politically speaking speaking but who knows um I'll post I'm going to post a link to that article in the chat right now you guys can read it if you want all right so we oh I have to put on the screen why am I not seeing Oh I know why hold on a second here so the uh press conference is at 1:30 Eastern Time maybe I should change the headline to Bo Boeing Starliner land successfully press conference at 130 ET if I can fit that all in is this all going to fit let me let me try to fix F fix fit it in one headline no uh we're going to stick around for it fine we're sticking around for the press conference fine for those who want to stay you can stay there we have our new headline how's that look I'm I'm committed I'm I'm committed to staying uh let me just fix our headline now now I can get rid of this gotta fix it here now and I got to fix it here okay what did I do what did I do there hey thanks to havu mom who's also moderating and thanks for your support havu mom and leonette as well thank you let me take a few more questions from you guys are a few more comments from you guys what did you think about it hold on a second here yeah so we are going to show you the Starliner press conference just give me one sec here give me one moment oh the planes are leaving the area it looks like hey guys look this is slight Radar 24 so uh the pl the two planes there's helicopters there so the two planes that were showing us video uh o are they this one here that's now at 45,000 ft see that one now which one is this one now I'm so confused oh no this was the cesna this one is this one is is going this that that one with the green track that was the cesna that was lower that was at 9,000 ft it's now at 5600 that was flying around uh White Sand's Missile Range here you can see it was doing circles we got video and that one looks like it's going back to where it left from which is Los Cruses International Airport there I think it's going to land back there yes oh it's coming into land it's coming into land I think we can go to 3D view where is the other one right now this one is is that even still up yeah that one is going away this one oh the other one now I'm now I'm conf looks like that one just disappeared anyways this is the let me just go back to single view here map default this one is coming into land so just for the fun of it because we're waiting for the news conference to start on Flight Radar 24 we will show you the cesna uh which was the aircraft that was showing us some of the pictures of the landing of the Starliner and it is landing at Los Cru says International Airport and really for no good reason just because I like showing it uh on Flight Radar 24 we are going to show you the cesna landing that the cesna that was taking video as JB said so we got to wait till 1:30 Eastern anyway and then the other plane the that was that was 32,000 ft high that one flew away and then we'll check out there's some helicopters in the area too but this one is now four down to 4600 feet good job cesna good job cesna you did you did good you did good cesna those planes were both taking video hey thanks for the gift membership have a suom This Plane we some of the video we watched of the landing was taken by this plane especially the stuff close to ground closer to the ground all right guys it's just about at the it's just about at the airport there the cesna is landing after a job well done Sarah says Los cruus is my hometown Flight Radar 24 great site great flight tracker I guess maybe it's it's it's the altitude is 4200 but I guess maybe it's a high altitude area so it's on the ground now there you go looks like it landed that's Las Cruses Airport there you go it made it all right so the the cesna is back the cesna is back on the ground if you were wondering okay so we'll get rid of that and just to show you guys up at the White Springs Missile Range here uh I'm not seeing any aircraft on flight r are there there's a couple helicopters down here what are these helicopters I don't know I don't know if these are related oh well that's a that looks like a medical helicopter so I don't know that could just be something where it's just not related to NASA uh that's probably what that is uh Las Cruses by the way is a city with about aund over a 100,000 people live in Las Cruses I did not know that over a 100,000 people live there so there okay now let's that was Flight Radar 24 we have 47 minutes till the press conference I'll also see if I've oh NASA I bet NASA posted some stuff some of you have probably already seen it so just hang hang on tight for a second let me just see if what NASA has posted I'm sure they've posted some stuff already hey look right here I got a post from NASA I can show you NASA commercial crew Boeing spaces Starliner touchdown safely in wh sand space Harbor New Mexico at 12:01 a.m. September 7th concluding the crew flight test even though the crew wasn't on it for the return flight of the flight test recovery teams are now beginning to work to retrieve Starliner for return to facilities at Nasa Kennedy tune in for the Post Landing news conference at uh 1:30 eastern time which we are going to do for those of you who are for those hearty Souls who are sticking around with us we are going to bring you the live news conference at 1:30 a.m. so that's something Sher riddle says I am a hearty soul no I'm not going to do other news updates I'm just going to stick I don't I don't really like mixing up the topics when I when I'm not when when when when we have a single topic stream so we'll just we'll just discuss this kind of thing hey thank you Missy Missy says Hardy Soul Club yeah if you're too tired to stay up that's okay that is okay but I'm GNA cover it I'm gonna cover it P laola post sent me a post from somebody who I guess heard a sonic boom I don't have the rights to show that video though so I can't show it uh our viewer sent a photo in uh we have a viewer who sent a photo in that I want to show you so our viewer whose name is New Mexico rockhound said oops hold on my view tonight from Bayard New Mexico West of White Sands as starliners Streak by in the sky New Mexico rockhound wow nice picture very cool I just saw that sorry I didn't see it before okay so now people send me some stuff and took me a little while to get to it sometimes for uh one of our viewers said one of our viewers I think it's an said uh she works at Blue origin and would love to give you a tour of the facility I don't think I don't think it's near Boston unfortunately where is the blue I saw like a 60 Minutes or something where they went in the blue origin facility very nice offer if I'm ever if I'm ever in town I I would go um uh they have a number of facilities says Wikipedia in Washington Texas Florida and Alabama that's according to Wikipedia none of those is in Massachusetts hey who knows who knows um hold on I'm going over from some of going over some of the when do the astronauts come back they come back in February febu on a SpaceX craft oh okay thank you sorry all right we have right now we have right now um 40 minutes 40 minutes until the press conference oh you know what um we also should I should mention guys I should mention uh I'm gonna take my headphones out for a second I don't need him in right now um I should mention the uh uh Polaris Dawn Polaris daon that's the um the SpaceX Mission which is supposed to happen soon which is supposed to include the first private space walk ever let me show you something about that uh just give me give me a second here oh hold on a second give me one other second I I I have something else I want to mention for yeah so look this is a Reuters article here now this this article was from a couple weeks ago this Mission has gotten delayed spacex's Polaris crew set for first private space walking mission that this is supposed to be soon but I don't believe there's a oh Gary is saying he's heard it's Monday Gary heard it was Monday coming this coming Monday at like 3:30 in the morning it's supposed to launch they're supposed to it's a four-person crew two of them work for SpaceX but they're not like professional astronauts and a very wealthy person and I think somebody the wealthy person knows but I might be wrong about that the wealthy person is like funding a lot of this um and uh they're going to do the first private space walk so let me just show you this um a four-person crew for a spacex's Polaris Dawn Mission now it has it's gotten delayed this was from a couple weeks ago um a mission that includes the first privately managed Space Walk a risky Endeavor only only government astronauts so far have done space walks in the past the crew a billionaire entrepreneur a retired military fighter pilot and two SpaceX employees have been training for more than two years uh and they will venture out of their crew Dragon capsule in Earth's orbit for the for a tethered spacewalk two of them and two of them are going to stay inside I believe I think the two SpaceX employees are going to stay inside but I'm not positive about that the emission will be a major first test said this is a Reuters article the emission will be a major first test of spacex's new astronaut space suits and marks the latest risky high stakes commercial Milestone that Elon Musk space company is looking to clinch on the Billionaire's path to eventually building colonies on Mars whatever risk associated with it it's worth it said Mission Commander Jared isaacman the CEO of electronic payment company Shift 4 who was also the head of the SpaceX Affiliated Polaris program um isaacman is bankrolling the mission and others under his Polaris program he declined to say how much he has spent on the mission so far but it's a total that would be hundreds of millions of dollars so aside from him there is a retired US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel uh Scott potit and then two SpaceX employees Sarah Gillis and Anna Menan uh crew Dragon they're going up on his crew Dragon capsule crew dragon has no airlock so its entire cabin will be slowly depressurized ahead of the spacewalk meaning all four astronauts will be testing out the new space suits but only two of them will float outside the aircraft only government astronauts from the US the former Soviet Union in Russia and the EUR European Space Agency in Canada and China have ever conducted space walks why and all the article also says while spacex's crew Dragon cap while SpaceX uses its crew Dragon capsule to send astronauts to and from the International Space Station for NASA the company has also sought to re to arrange privately funded space flights that feature new Milestones with each Mission the first mission led by Isaac Min inspiration 4 in 2021 was the first all civilian privately funded flight into Earth's orbit SpaceX this month said it plans to launch next year the first crew to ever orbit the Earth Earth poll Toole and featuring a multinational crew anyways uh that is a picture right here I'm going to show you a picture here that's the crew that's a reuter's picture of the crew which is hold on it is uh Anna Marin Scott potit Jared isaacman and Sarah Gillis so that's Jared isaacman who's bankrolling the Polaris project anyways so that is coming up and I I am planning on covering that so the the launch was supposed to have already happened but it got delayed but sometime soon the launch is going to happen so put that on just keep an eye out for that okay project id4 says Space X wants to colonize Mars which will require space suits they are happy to have Jared help pay for the development you know I do Wonder so I should have video of the launch because SpaceX I think I get it through Reuters um but I'm guessing we might the thing I really want to have video of is The Space Walk and I would think that SpaceX if possible would have that video which again I would be able to use via Reuters presumably presumably so if I do have video of the spacewalk I would certainly cover it Ruth says they have been training okay we have for the for the for the hearty Souls who are still here uh Pine Ways by the way on Twitch says I wonder if they'll broadcast it I know they're supposed to broadcast the launch thanks to stacks for your support by the way and also um uh all of our moderators thank you for being here stack says if SpaceX is doing it they will have tons of videos has this article been updated yet let's see oh I had something else to share with you too we should look at this you know what give me give me so we have um 30 minutes until the press conference we are going to cover the press conference live here for you Hardy Souls who have stuck with the broadcast so so in 30 minutes we will have live the NASA press conference about the Starliner Landing Marcel Kar by the way says of the of that SpaceX crew real Pioneers awesome uh hmd hm doppelganger says SpaceX will stream this here they have starlink does starlink work out there how do I I don't know how that works and I don't I don't I don't know that you can put a a starlink dish on your spacecraft Marcel um all right hey so give me guys give me uh I need to take a one minute break I'm going to come back in one minute um and then we will keep giving you updates and we're going to have in less than in less than 30 minutes now the press conference Gary says they are going much higher than the stlink satellites is that what car's saying because the star length satellites Point towards Earth right one minute break one minute break for me I need a one minute break all right Steve will be back I'm going to leave that AP article up uh I will be back in one minute I'm coming back right back in 1 minute and then we'll talk some more about all this space stuff and then we'll see the NASA press conference at 1:30 a.m. so give me 1 minute e e e that was like a minute okay um so again we're going to be covering this press conference at in 27 minutes press conference in 27 minutes by the way I had this um I had this uh uh I had this um article sitting up here and we haven't even I just want to go through a little bit of this this is from the Associated Press I have a couple articles talking about this whole event offering some analysis what are the photos they have in this article let's see this is stuff I think it's this is all stuff we saw stuff we saw earlier today there's the undocking we saw that oh that's Butch Wilmore and sunny Williams on the International Space Station those are the two astronauts who went up in the Starliner weren't able to come down in it so they're there until February there they are but um okay uh Boeing's first astronaut Mission ended Friday night with an empty capsule remember this was their first crude mission of this spacecraft it was supposed to be the one and only test flight with crew but it came back with no crew you know it's funny because General we've been happy we've done a we've done a bunch of coverage with the Starliner so tonight was more about will it will it make it down okay and it was good to see it did but you know you do have to remember that it was supposed to have the crew on it um but uh Boeing's first astronaut Mission ended tonight with an empty capsule landing and two test pilots still in space left behind until next year because NASA judged their return too risky uh it was an uneventful close to a drama that began with the June launch of Starliner long delayed crew debut and quickly escalated into a dragged out cliffhanger of a mission stricken by Thruster failures and helium leaks for months the return of the astronauts was in question as Engineers struggled to understand the capsule's problems Boeing insisted after extensive testing that the Starliner was safe to bring the astronauts home but NASA disagreed and booked a flight with SpaceX instead their SpaceX ride home will not be until next February uh they're going to stay more than eight months instead of like a instead of having a roughly eight day flight uh the ride to the space station the initial ride there was marred by the Cascade of Thruster trouble and helium loss and NASA ultimately decided it was too risky okay oh uh Sunny Williams stayed up late to see how everything turned out a good Landing pretty awesome said Boeing's Mission Control we watch this yeah so this is interesting this is a little history of this NASA of this Boeing Starliner Craft um so after the space shuttles retired more than a decade ago NASA hired both Boeing and SpaceX uh for orbital taxi service Boeing ran into so many problems on its first test flight with no one aboard on 2019 that it had to repeat it the 2022 doover uncover covered even more flaws and the repair Bill topped a billion dollars those were the two previous test lights before this one uh meanwhile SpaceX got their crew Dragon capsule approved certified by NASA and now they're on they're about to do their 10th crew Ferry flight okay uh even before the launch of the liner on June 5th the propulsion system was leaking helium the leak was small and thought to be isolated but four more leaks cropped up after liftoff then five thrusters failed although four of the thrusters were recovered it gave NASA pause as to whether more malfunctions might hamper The capsule's Descent from orbit Boeing conducted numerous Thruster tests in space and on the ground over the summer and was convinced it spacecraft this is Boeing Boeing was convinced it spacecraft could safely bring the astronauts back but NASA could not get comfortable with the Thruster situation and went with SpaceX flight controllers did conduct more test firings of the capsule's thrusters today following undocking one of them did fail to ignite Engineers suspect that the more the thrusters are fired the hotter they become causing protective seals to swell and obstruct the flow of propellant they won't be able to examine any of the parts though because remember the section holding the thrusters was ditched just before re-entry uh the national Comm the NASA's commercial crew program manager Steve Stitch did say earlier this week that the space agency remains committed to having two competing us companies transporting astronauts interesting uh Jane Jones says I'm glad they played it safe and left the astronauts at the Space Station Troy DOD says competition lowers prices Ray z says why does NASA have to approve the space xcraft um they need to approve it to to to take NASA astronauts right isn't that the idea because these are NASA missions the idea is that NASA is conducting these missions where NASA sends the astronauts to the space station and I think maybe NASA is a partner in the space station but they have basically farmed out the spacecraft so if NASA is going to conduct NASA missions with NASA astronauts um then they need to approve the spacecraft so for SpaceX can do other missions if SpaceX wants to that have nothing to do with NASA and they don't need NASA approval for that but if they're going to if any company is going to have a spacecraft that Nasa uses to Ferry the NASA astronauts then NASA is going to have to sign off on that spacecraft and they have not it's called certification they have not certified the Boeing one yet how many flights until Boeing makes up the difference so I don't know there's this question of like could they get certified without any other test flights there was supposed to be one crude test flight if this had all gone well this flight then in theory that would have been enough to basically enough to get it certified so I don't know how much more assuming they move forward with Boeing and and and want to get this this craft certified are we talking one more test flight I I don't know I mean you know if they have a test flight it's got to go well I would assume and then I was gonna so we're waiting for that press conference to start does NASA even have that posted yet let's see hold on press conference in 19 minutes yeah they NASA hasn't yet posted they'll post a stream for the news conference uh let's see hey by the way thanks to our moderators Ruth creasi and havu Mama are there on YouTube uh and Linda Bel and Larry on X thanks for staying and thanks to you for watching and staying up late as we wait for this press conference and also thanks to Oliver Frost for moderating and Kay Larry body and Margaret Riley Ronald eggor on Facebook and on Twitch um Sarah and papa bear hey let me shout out a couple of the subscribers too on Twitch oler Uprising thanks for subscribing over there and supporting the channel crabs suit Lando clutch GP uh they're over there Wall Street and Shaggy thanks for faky Beats explodes five Sarah and all of our other subscribers on Twitch thank you uh and on Facebook our subscribers here Athena gunlock hello Athena thanks for watching and thanks for subscribing uh Mary Goodson Hamilton thank you for subscribing uh the capsule is owned by I believe owned by Boeing but so it's it's officially a Boeing Capsule that's what I believe is the case cuz Marie said who owns the capsule now I believe Boeing owns it and NASA has hired Boeing and Spa and SpaceX to provide these spacecraft that's that's what I believe is the case um by the way Kay thinks the capsule is reusable is that true hold on let me just think I'm gonna look that up in a second uh thanks Robert R II for being a subscriber on Facebook by the way and Eve Richards and Lou green and Jane Summers all of our [Music] um our subscribers on Facebook is Starliner reusable I mean a a bunch of it is clearly not reusable because they have the jettison a bunch of it um Boeing says that the Starliner is reusable up to 10 times okay that's what it says this is literally the Boeing website and it says the Starliner has has an Innovative weldless weldless structure no welds and is reusable up to 10 times with a six-month turnaround time it also features wireless internet and tablet technology for crew interfaces all right oh we you know uh Cherry kis says why haven't they shown a picture yet of Starliner I'd like to see if it's damaged at all maybe we'll see it in the press conference maybe we'll see it in the press conference which is coming up in 16 minutes 16 minutes until the Starliner press conference guys now I just because it in theory is reusable that doesn't mean that they will reuse this one I don't know that they will um I don't even know if this one is is is the same one as the one before I honestly don't know just because it is reusable doesn't mean that they're reusing them for the test flights uh let's see Marcel says refresh and positive new refreshing and positive news episode with all the other bad stuff going on in the world uh let's see here hang on a moment give me a moment here oh um you know there's an update here from the Washington post that I want to mention to you I want to just mention that in a about the the Boeing program just give me a second here give me one sec so the Washington Post says Boeing has a story right now Boeing Starliner returns but faces an uncertain future and just to tell you some of what they say um this flight this test flight which ended up coming home with no astronauts on it um the starliners First with people on board was designed to test how the spacecraft operated with a crew if all had gone well on this flight NASA would certify the spacecraft for regular crew rotation missions allowing Boeing to fer as many as four astronauts for six months days on the International Space Station but the capsule uh as we know had problems with the thrusters um and also helium leaks uh oh uh yes while successful the return flight we just saw was not perfect NASA said one of the thrusters on the spacecraft's crew module failed during testing after the spacecraft had undocked the space station given the redundancy of the system the bulky Thruster did not possess a POS a problem NASA said now says the Washington Post NASA and Boeing will begin to assess what went wrong with the spacecraft and try to determine if Boeing will have to make design changes to the propulsion system like the thrusters fly it in a different way that doesn't overtax the thrusters or even perform another test flight it's not clear if there was going to be another test flight NASA has said said it could still be possible to certify Starliner for regular crew rotation missions even though it didn't actually bring the two astronauts home um oh and uh uh Boeing space I think released a statement of sorts uh which I'll tell you did they post it I have a picture of it I have a picture of the Starliner so um you know what I'm going to post it in the chat because it's a Boeing picture and I don't know that I have the rights to show this picture you got to be careful with this stuff because because NASA did not post it so I'm G to post a link in the chat with a link to the Boeing Starliner picture of the Starliner sitting on the ground in the dark oh I I it's it's on the boat website it's a web link uh photo I just have to be careful here because it's a Boeing photo not a NASA photo so I just posted a link in the chat a website link to the Boeing website with a picture of Starliner you can go see it right now it's sitting in the dark uh if you go to Bo if you go to Starliner updates.com you can find it there too Starliner updates.com if you find the right link to it uh I'm on a boing Boeing also posted it on the Boeing Space X account at Boeing space all one word any of you guys see that sorry I just I I don't know if they're cool with me showing that photo my guess is that NASA eventually will post the photo but it's a neat photo anyways I just posted the link in the chat unless you're on X if you're on X go to if you're watching on x go to Boeing space on X and look at it but I would assume maybe NASA will post it soon if they haven't posted one already let me just double check here I'm not seeing it posted by NASA yet so uh the Press conferen is in 10 minutes we're going to be carrying the press conference live um but this but the Washington Post got a statement from Boeing which said um Mark nappy vice president and program manager of Boeing's commercial crew program said in a statement I want to recognize the work the Starliner teams is Mark nappy with Boeing or NASA is that a typo hold on a second yeah he's with Boeing so uh a Boeing official said I want to recognize the work the star liner teams did to ensure a successful and safe undocking deorbit re-entry and Landing we will review the data and determine the next step for the program the decision to fly Starliner back without its crew was an enormous slight for Boeing says the Washington Post which is already uh and and Boeing is already years behind Starliner original schedule and facing cost overruns of about $1.6 billion uh The Washington Post also says it will be difficult to fully diagnose the issues with Starliner the service module the part of the spacecraft that houses the troubled propulsion system with the thrusters was jettisoned and burned up in Earth's atmosphere so Engineers won't be able to study it NASA will not could not say how long the review will take anyways so we'll have to see what H will will Starliner in a couple years be certified by NASA and be doing regular uh faeries of astronauts back and forth to the space station like SpaceX crew Dragon already does no idea no idea hey thanks to uh don3 for watching over there on X and um I will post a link again if you want to see a photo of the Starliner that Boeing posted they posted a link a link of the Starliner on the ground in the dark but you can see it um I will once again post the link in the chat you can find it at Starliner updates.com so I just posted the link again if you want to see it and at Boeing space on X at Boeing space on X again it's their photo and I don't have permission to show it so I don't want to overstep my bounds uh we have eight minutes till the press conference do they have that live stream up yet I'm looking I don't see it yet no they have not posted the press conference live stream yet we are waiting for it yes the live event has not yet started it has not started yet oh it's it's Boeing it's na NASA and Boeing I guess are both going to have Representatives there it sound that's what reuter says oh thank you Gringo for the gift memberships thanks Gringo I appreciate that thanks to all of our members on YouTube people like Brian beelman Abe Fran William chromer Amy Troy Dodd Danny G asymptomatic super spreader uh Chris n Stacks wickedest witch Danny G lady red Cheryl sibson turnt off mini Manson these are some of our members on YouTube Milford cubicle he is risen thank you Gary eert Pat W Joe B Stacks General Buck Turon thank you um as soon as I have footage of the press conference I'll put it up on the screen for you guys thanks for sticking around late night for the press conference I appreciate it oh cryto thanks for the Super Chat as well and thanks for shouting out the mods crypto King thank you it is 1:24 so in about 5 minutes we should have this press conference for you five minutes everyone if it starts on time hang on a moment oh I'm going to post another link which is kind of neat I'm going to post another link for people who want to watch it so our viewer uh Brian leot said he took a video of the Starliner re-entry so I'm going to post Brian's video Brian video of re-entry and then you can watch it if you want I just posted a link to it in the chat I know some people might not be a if you're like watching on TV you can't like just click on the chat links so so I I apologize for that but [Music] um you can always go back well if you bother you can watch it you can pull out your phone or something and pull up the chat on your phone or something and do it that way I apologize uh let me see here do I have also there's there there are people posting on social media like P laa sent me some stuff that I don't have the rights to but I'm sure you can go find other videos of people who took I'm I haven't even had a chance to look I'm sure like on Tik Tok and x and who knows Instagram or whatever that other people and YouTube have posted video footage that that they took of the you could see the uh capsule coming down all again it is 1:26 a.m. we're waiting for this press conference to start it is not not started yet we're waiting I am waiting along with you the link is there it's right in the I can literally see it in the YouTube chat it says Brian's video of re-entry hey thanks Brian beelman that's so nice of you Brian just gave 20 people memberships it's very generous of you Brian thank you make sure you thank someone like Brian or Gringo if they give you a membership or a gift subscription thank you Brian it's really nice of you Brian beelman oh there will be no Boeing Representatives at the post Landing Starliner news conference okay guys we have an update from Eric Burger Eric Burger who is the senior space editor at RS technico reports just confirmed there will be no Boeing Representatives at the post Landing Starliner news conference uh ask NASA why response you'll have to ask them now Boeing is not happy I know because they said that the Starliner was safe to bring the crew down and the washingon Post article I was talking telling you about before mentioned this and said uh where is it here yes the Washington Post article uh Boeing Starliner returns but faces an uncertain future said in a rare public brief Boeing said it disagreed with NASA's decision uh they had argued that Starliner had could safely bring the crew home so our viewer RM Gibbs thinks Boeing is not happy so I don't know exactly why they're not going to be at the press conference but maybe they're just I don't maybe they're still angry about it I don't know I don't know I can't speak to what's going on there turned off than Boeing is salty um okay we're still waiting for this to start it has not started yet it is 129 well oh hold on it's about to start it's about to start it's about to start why do they have it where is it I have it from Reuters I'll just show you the Reuters one I don't know why it's not on their YouTube or something hang on a moment I'm GNA I'm putting it up on the screen I'm putting it up on the screen for you I am putting it up on the screen for you right now just hang on tight here it is there it is there oh hold on I got to get on the left side I got to get on the left side NASA's Boeing Starliner crew flight test post Landing press conference there it is for some reason it's I don't see it on their YouTube page oh NASA gov video YouTube channel says DG well I have this one anyway I have this one from reuter so I'll just use this one so it's all coming from the same place we got it oh hold on hold on a second here it is where's my Sounder in our post Landing news conference for the Starliner crew flight test Starliner touched back down on Earth uh today or to yesterday depending on where you're watching from at 11:01 p.m. central time or 1 minute after midnight eastern time here today to discuss the mission with you and wrap it up we've got Joel montoon Deputy associate administrator for space operations Mission directorate at NASA headquarters in Washington Steve Stitch the manager for the commercial crew program from NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida and Dana wagle manager for the International Space Station program here at NASA Johnson I'll let them each make some opening remarks and then we'll open up the floor for question if you do have a question you can on the phone Bridge uh you can press star one to let us know let's start with Joel well first of all thank you for joining us uh for those here in the room and for those online um as was said Nas and bowling safely returned the Starliner spacecraft uh just after 11: p.m. central Time to the wh sand space Harbor in New Mexico after spending approximately 3 months attached to the International Space Station it's great to have the Starliner home um a safe and successful Landing was exactly what we wanted um it was UN crude everybody see the systems work is is what exactly what we wanted it's important to remember this was a test mission right we this Mission uh the team spent a lot of time understanding this board doing additional testing out at White Sands doing analysis here and I mean the team the NASA team the Boeing team you know across the partnership we work together to get this data and and pull things um you know not this was of a crew um you know the Starliner on the atlas 5 the procedures and the processes for that uh on appro some manual piloting we had a successful docking and we had three vehicle on board the International Space Station as we learn to operate with the systems and the crew and the interfaces there um I want to go ahead and thank the the Boeing team the commercial crew program International Space Station program our International partners and all the engineers and worked on this mission to get us where we are today uh with that I'll hand it over to Steve thank you yeah thanks Joel and thanks for your interested in the commercial crew program and thanks for being here at a relatively late hour um it was a great day today to return Starliner it was great to have a successful undock the and landing of the vehicle we're really excited to have Calypso back on the ground you know Sunny told the ground team you've got this bring Calypso back and that's what they did tonight uh I am thrilled for our Boeing team and all of our colleagues that 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 a testament to those people that we got the vehicle back safely today I I can tell you that CFT is very personal to uh to our team and to a lot of the people that worked on the mission and it represents a tremendous honor to bring the vehicle back to achieve a lot of test objectives today when we brought the vehicle back and then really PVE the way for future Starliner missions uh I'm happy to report Starliner did really well today in the undock the orbit and Landing sequence uh you know we used the NASA docking system for the second time on the mission to to undock from the space station uh 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 um 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 5 MERS and then did a series of about 12 uh Burns using the service module for jets um and then we opened uh after that sequence of Maneuvers we ended up opening at about 22 kilm per rev away from the space station all those thrusters did really well through that sep sequence no problems at all no fail offs or any problems at all um you know we had a good chance to look at the helium system today when we uh before we undocked we repressurized that system we had a criteria of 8 PSI per hour in the olage system for that uh the helium and we were about four four and a half PSI per hour so the helium system performed really well um and then you know when we backed away from the system or from the St space station we did hot fire a number of thrusters on the service module uh all eight of those for thrusters uh worked just great we were able to look at the thrust of those thrusters and it was nominal uh all were performed at 100% and we also hot fired two a thrusters and those worked well um we had great performance from the the GNC system uh the guidance navigation control the Vesta system uh last fight on of2 we had a little bit of trouble with a we call a a calibration maneuver to to really make sure that the attitude is good for this space integrated GPS ins system and that went really well uh we had a deorbit burn that executed on time at 1117 p.m. central it was about 130 m/ second 58 second burn was a really good burn um and the the service module thrusters performed well for that burn the omx performed well um you know we watched the burn we saw couple things the in the starboard dogghouse you know we talked a little bit about the temperatures there being a little higher one of the thrusters S2 A2 didn't fail off but it had a little higher temperature than it expected so we'll look at that date a little bit after the flight and then another Thruster in the top dog house had a little higher temperature we intentionally had planned to inhibit uh the software to let thrusters fail off during the deorbit burn and that worked fine so we really need to go back and look at all that data um the service module separated away just fine uh that that sequence went well once we separate the service module we don't have good insight into those uh thrusters on the service module but we expected it to be in the Pacific Ocean right where we intended it to be uh during entry uh the vehicle performed great um it flew just fine the GNC system performed well uh perfect entry um the one thing that we uh will have to go look at after the flight is when we hot fired before we had the entry we hot fired on the crew module there's 12 thrusters and one of the upfiring thrusters did not perform at all uh we hot fired it twice and we used two different methods to talk to it two different uh parts of the avionic system and we never saw any chamber pressure any pulses there it looked like it's a this is different than the service module thrusters it's what we call a monopropellant system it's very simple it has a a valve that opens and then the propellent flows across the cat bed and as it flows across that catbed there's a reaction and causes thrust and for some reason that Thruster did not perform but we used the Redundant Thruster on the other manifold there's another upfiring Thruster that worked just fine during entry but something we'll have to go work at um the uh you know it was a bullseye Landing uh great landing out at Whit skins um the one thing we worked a little bit during entry is for some reason when we came out of the plasma uh the navigation system we call it the sigy 3 uh kind of failed off temporarily and then that system was brought back on and it was tracking just fine um sigy 2 also had a couple little hiccups during entry we'll have to go look at that um and that's really the only things that happened during entry the sublimator that we had a little trouble with that's a cooling device that us used to cool the vehicle during entry it performed really well um we had a little trouble forming what we call an ice block on that during Asen and that performed great tonight it's really great to get the space craft back and then we'll start the next steps so we've been talking to the Boeing team already about next steps we want to get into the spacecraft uh 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 hyperal compatible and then maybe a little bigger size we'll do that uh Boeing's already formed teams to look at the the changes that need to be made for Starliner one uh in terms of the thermal environment in the dog houses can we do something different to make the dog houses a little less thermally severe for the omac burns and the thrusters um a second team is looking at uh the hot of the thrusters that's needed on the service module to complete the qualification and make sure we understand which pulses cause the Teflon seed on the oxide to swell and then thirdly there's a GNC team already formed to look and figure out how we go fly the vehicle differently can we change the dead bands can we change the way it flies to not stress the thrusters and so that work has already started and that's really the path to Starliner one so I'm I'm super proud of the team it was a great day for the commercial crew program and also for Boeing congratulations to that team who worked so hard it's great to have the spacecraft back and we're now focused on Starliner one and I'll turn it over to Dana thank you very much Steve and thank you all for being here with us at this uh very late hour and for your interest in the uh undocking of the Starliner from the International Space Station and its successful Landing I want to congratulate the Boeing team they did a fantastic job with the operations this evening um they had to make a number of changes to the plan in short order there were a lot of differences between the crude and the uncrewed mission including as Steve talked about the differences in the departure sequence fantastic job executing that um after Starliner undocked from the harmony or node two forward Port it backed away and then executed a series of breakout Burns it went up over and behind ISS the crew was watching it until it was out of view um but then they came back and they watched the re-entry and the deorbit in fact they got some really neat views of the Starliner streaking through the atmosphere using some of the station uh video cameras on board pretty neat to see um the rest of the month in front of us on board station is really busy I know I've talked to you about this before but just as a reminder next week we've got the soou crew exchange with the launch of the 73 soy use on September 11th bringing up NASA astronaut Don Pettit and then we're returning NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson on the 72 s soise when that comes home at the end of the month we'll bring up crew N9 do a Handover between crew8 crew n and then bring the crew8 vehicle home um I do want to express my sincerest appreciation for the the team they worked tirelessly over the whole summer you know we had the Starliner on board station for uh months uh most folks were working nights weekends uh they did an excellent job that the proof is in uh getting the vehicle safely home today I know we've got a lot of things that we learned on the mission we've got work in front of us but I know that we've got the right teams in place to tackle these challenges and uh help us fly our future Starliner missions and with that I will hand it back over to Brandy all right thank you okay so we're going to start with questions here in the room then we'll take them from the phone homebridge reminder if you're joining us by phone let us know you have a question by pressing star one and if your question gets answered and you want to withdraw it you can uh press star to to get out of the queue but let's start here in the room uh how about Eric hi Eric Berg with ours Technica thanks for the great show tonight that was really a stunning re-entry um I wanted to ask about the Arc of the commercial crew program I was going to ask both boing and NASA but they I guess they didn't show up for some reason um but anyway it's been a decade since the CT CCT cap awards were given out I had to go look up that acronym I'd forgotten it um it was but it was a big experiment in fixed price contracts and in human space fight and so I'm just wondering a decade later and literally it's been a decade um you know after all this happened with dragon with Boeing with the you know the delays and and now with with this Mission just to get a sense of you from NASA if is the experiment a success and kind of what is the future of human space with this commercial approach you know I'll start you know from a a commercial standpoint um we have two crew Vehicles you know the dragon Starliner and obviously some work that we need to do on Starliner we have commercial vehicles with uh cargo vehicles in the dragon and the north of Grom and signis we have the Dreamchaser that's coming up next year and so it's as it's slower than you know we expected absolutely right it is slower but it's we're making progress and and to me we we are learning um every time we have a mission we learn something that gets passed on we're sharing things across the commercial World um you saw you know last year I'll say you know blue origin had that uh that parachute anomaly and and the teams all got together and shared across the different companies you know what they learned and to me that's what this program is is help helping out it's it's sharing the expertise of find in space and now Steve and Dana add yeah I think that's an interesting retrospective way to look at things Eric the fact that here we are 10 years into the program and and how are we doing uh I I would say we've done a great job at fielding two Transportation Systems in in in Fairly record time if you look at our development programs these days within NASA commercial crew has done uh an amazing feat of getting to two crude vehicles in in 10 years and really in the last four years having bringing Along online Dragon crude dragon and then also um now Starliner U the unique thing that we're doing as well is sort of fostering this Market in in low earth orbit you know we already see Spa you know SpaceX flying um non- NASA flights they have one that they're they're trying to get off the ground Polaris on they flew inspiration 4 they've flown a number of Pam missions they've got another Pam Mission coming up in the middle of of of next year um so you're starting to see that market get fostered and non-as Emissions which was what we want and then if you really think about our vehicles and what we really want to do um Space Station's a great vehicle it's awesome place but at some point you know the space station is going to need to be retired and so we're preparing Vehicles right now to be there in the future for these commercial Leo destinations as well so I think it's been an interesting as you said and when we started it was kind of an experiment on the heels of cargo but now we're starting to see you know the benefits of the Investments by both NASA and our partners and that's the one thing that's different about our program is there's investment from both NE NASA side and also in my case SpaceX and Boeing to make the vehicles safe and [Music] successful all right Mark oh thank you um Mark Caro with Aviation weaken space technology um how long would you sort of estimate that it will will take uh the commercial crew Program Space Station uh partnering or or whatever to sort of assess this flight and what steps need to follow um you know just kind of to make a full report that you're all satisfied with that layout steps ahead yeah I think the timeline is a little bit uh we're going to take our time to figure out what we need to do to go fly Starliner one right you know we've laid out uh right now manifest wise we have that flight booked uh next year in the in the second slot of the year uh the first thing we'll do when we get the vehicle back is continue to look at all the data look at the Thruster performance for this phase of flight in detail and then we already have these teams that I've talked about established uh they're going to start meeting we weekly on looking at the design changes required in in the helium system to eliminate the leaks and then can we fly the vehicle different can we change the thermal in the doghouses what testing do we need at Whit Sands um it'll take a little time to lay that out and then get into the testing and then you know I think we'll see where we're at in another month or so and we'll have a little bit better idea of what the overall schedule will be okay Gina go ahead uh Gina Sinar ABC News I'm not sure who wants this but we heard a lot about the problems but what about Starliner performance particularly impressed you or surprised you in a positive fashion I I would say not a surprise but if I just look at the three flights we've flown um of1 of2 and and uh CFT you know the Starliner performance and executing the entry phase has been just about Flawless other than the problem we see with the when it comes out of the the plasma a little bit it has a little trouble acquiring in one of the receivers it seems but if I look at the way the vehicle flies the Thruster performance uh hitting the target at the Landing site the parachute deploys separating the forward heat shield and getting the drog parachutes out stabilizing the vehicle then putting the main parachutes out and then separating the heat shield which is a complicated separation and deploying the airbags um the third time now we've landed Ed a capsule in the US on land uh the entry in particular has been been darn near Flawless so that I wouldn't say it surprised me but as I step back and think about the mission uh the entry itself was just and the orbit burn was spot on okay why don't we go to the phone Bridge next uh we will start with Mara Dunn with the associated breast yes hi um probably for you Steve it sounds like you won't require another test flight that an operational Starliner one with the crew will be next is that how it looks as of today in I understanding that correctly that the next flight will be fully certified ready to go with the crew to to to be a real crew swap thanks yeah I would say it's probably too early to think about exactly what the next flight looks like I think we want to take the ne the steps to go look at all the data our certainly our goal is to get to the rotation flight our goal all along has been to have you know one flight a year one flight from Boeing Starliner and another flight from SpaceX with dragon so it'll take a little time to determine the path forward uh but today we saw the vehicle perform really well we've got some things we know we've got to go work on and we'll go do that and and fix those things and then go fly when we're ready so thank you Marcia how about uh Bill Harwood with CBS News um yeah thanks um and actually Mara just just asked my question so let me ask you a different one uh for Steve Stitch um if a crew had been on board the spacecraft tonight uh would anything have been different or would it just have been the the same re-entry we saw basically I mean I know you had a quick fly out you to get away from the station without the crew on board but just from a crew standpoint if they had been on board I just for the record everything would have been fine is that is that correct yeah if we' have had a crew on board the spacecraft we would have flown the same uh backway sequence from the space station and the same deorbit burn and executed the same entry and so it would have been a safe successful Landing with the crew on board uh had we have had Butch and sunny on board know that you you don't have second thoughts about these things but would would you have any second thoughts about the decision not to bring him back if you had it to do over again knowing what you know now about the landing 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' 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 crude flight but we didn't have that we didn't have a way to take that white sand uh testing and anchored in a model and uh so I think we made the right decision to not have Butch and sunny on board uh it's awfully it's awfully hard for the team it's hard for me when we sit here and have a successful Landing to to to be in that position but um you know it was a test flight and we didn't have confidence in with the certainty of the Thruster performance and that's really what led us to to choose to have the uncrewed test flight thanks okay next we'll go to sawer Rosenstein with nasaspaceflight.com thank you for taking my question first off congratulations on that successful Landing there uh you earlier mentioned about that nav system Dropout as it was coming out through the plasma there can you kind of explain what role that has and did that come back online at its own was there some ground intervention needed just what exactly was done to resolve it yeah the way the nav system works is we have uh three devices that that essentially are like a a GPS and then also measure velocity and and the orientation of the spacecraft and so when we came uh out of the plasma um one of the the third Siggy space integrated GPS ins uh had trouble acquiring and so the software said it wasn't performing well it didn't have enough satellites and it failed it it failed it out uh the ground team looked at uh the two remaining systems uh sigy number one and sigy number two sigy number two wasn't receiving marks as well as it should have they analyzed sigy number three did a great job looking at that and then brought that back into the the nav set and so we had three essentially GPS's and then protected for if number two would have been completely uh bad so the the team did a great job I think we just need to look at you know do we need to allow a little bit more time uh for the GPS to acquire uh on the backside of the blackout and uh the flight control team again did a great job recovering that GPS thank you uh let's go now to Will Robinson Smith with space flight now yes hi thanks for taking the time to speak with us after a good Landing um follow up on Mark her's question about timeline but in a slightly different way um when do you expect that uh Calypso will arrive back at the county Space Center and what's the immediate work that we to be done uh once it arrives here thanks yeah don't have the exact timeline it usually takes a couple of weeks to get it back um one of the first things that happens when it comes back is uh a lot of the data uh that we get on board the spacecraft goes through the tracking data relay satellite to the ground and we can see that Telemetry in real time but there's also recorded data on board with the test flight we have a number of sensors uh across the systems that record data data we'll want to down link all that high rate data and take a look at that uh data um and then really it's a series of analyzing all the data from uh the entry the undocking and the deorbit across all the systems on the vehicle to just see if there's anything that was off nominal it'll study the data at a little higher rate so you know it'll take a couple weeks to get it back and um a week or so to get the date off the spacecraft okay thank you uh Robert Pearlman with collect space thank you um when apoll 13 safety landed NASA described the mission as a Successful Failure is that how you would label the outcome of this flight given that star star excuse me Starliner Landing was safe and successful but it failed to bring the crew home this Joel I would not call it a Successful Failure um we knew go this was going to be a test mission we learned a lot uh the teams uh work together both the bowling and the NASA team to understand the systems of the spacecraft and how they operated the team worked together at White Sands to understand the analysis that was done um you know on the test mission things don't always go as as you planned and so we were prepared the fact that this vehicle's home we're very happy to have the vehicle home uh to me a success you know clearly we got some work to do the teams will understand that work and move forward and if you just look at mission objectives you know we think we've probably got 85 to 90% of the mission objectives we dock with the space station we stay docked for um three months as Joel said there's a lot of learning that happens in that three months that is invaluable for an increment Mission uh we did the half of an increment essentially having the vehicle there understanding how to work uh the Starliner team work with the ISS team analyzing the data for those three months so in some ways the mission overachieved some objectives in terms of being there for extra time um not having the crew on board obviously there's some things that we we we lack in terms of uh Butch and Sunny's test pilot expertise at how the vehicle performed what they saw in the cockpit we won't have that data but we still have the wealth of data from the spacecraft itself and so that will go towards the mission objectives and the certification of the vehicle thank you uh stepen Clark from RS Technica hi good morning thanks for taking my question a couple ones if I could uh Steve stit you mentioned a couple of the thrusters on the starboard and top dogghouse got a little warm during uh the deorbit burn sequence I believe uh you said you inhibited some of the limits uh to prevent them from failing off during that de over burn if those normal limits have been in place would those thrusters have been deselected at the temperatures they reached and also since no one from Boeing is there uh Steve I'll ask you this what's the the kind of the state of the service module for Starliner one is it fully assembled you have to start taking it apart to get to these seals that you may need to replace and any other Hardware changes you might need to make before that mission thanks yeah let let's see uh relative to the temperatures getting a little high um I don't have the data with me to see whether it would have failed off or not had the had the software been enabled we intentionally had planned to fly the flight with the software uh inhibited even before the Thruster problems uh we had seen some overheating of some other parts of the thrusters in previous flights and so we wanted to go ahead and have that that flight detection or fault detection system inhibited for the deorbit burn so I'm not quite sure I would can answer the question whether they would have failed off and then relative to the service module uh for Starliner one it's in the middle of being built um we'll get to a point where we have assembled the doghouses in at some level and then we'll have to stop and wait to see what the design changes are do we remove some of the thermal blankets uh inside those doghouses do we make some changes to make it uh a little cooler when we fire the omx and also the RCs thrusters um so it it is in a state of build uh and undergoing the final build process but we'll we'll hold for the final dock house assembly uh until we understand the design changes thank you apologize if I mispronounced this but isim Ahmed from AFP yes hi thanks um yeah just to follow up on um couple of questions from before um is there an actual chance that the next flight could indeed be crude uh without requiring another on crew test and um is is Boeing pushing for that or have you have they spoken to you about that at all and just wondering why they're not on the call thank you let's see I'll take uh we'll start from the end there um we did talk to Boeing before this uh they deferred to NASA to represent the mission I will tell you that uh Boeing has critical work uh that they do for NASA in the International Space Station program the commercial crew program and the span La space launch systems program and but their work is critical our success and and um we fully expect Boeing to continue all three of those programs and I think you know relative to getting to our final capability of having a certified vehicle and and having a capability to do the rotation missions with space station I think both Boeing and NASA share that goal we would both like to get there I think we just need a little time to lay out the plan plan and look at what testing is required and look at how can we validate that testing in flight and then uh what would be the risk uh with proceeding once we understand the design changes so we just need a little time to work through that okay let's go next to Jackie Godard with the times of London hello thank you yeah just following up on that last question we're not getting straight answer to why aren't Boeing here I I know you all want to be diplomatic but can you kind of give us an open honest assessment of is there a kind of healing process that Now lies ahead um this kind of should be a sort of moment of of Celebration but we don't have the Boeing folks here at the table there's no explanation why it doesn't appear that there's joyful Unity if there is um how do you folks fix the rift is there a rift um is there damage being done to the relationship thank you okay so I'll answer again you know we talked to oen they said hey we like NASA and to take the Press brief they defer to us to talk the mission um I can tell you that uh the three of us have all talked to the Boeing managers after the landing uh the Boeing managers came into the control room and congratulated the team uh talked to the NASA team and so um Boeing is committed to continue their work with us and I think you know from a human perspective uh all of us feel uh happy about the successful Landing but then there's a piece of us all of us that we wish it would have been the way we had planned it we had planned to have the mission land with Butch and sunny on board I think there's depending on who you are on the team different emotions associated with that and uh you know I think it's going to take a little time to work through that uh for me a little bit and then for everybody else on the Boeing and NASA team so okay next up we have Micah Maiden B from Wall Street Journal hi everyone I think this would uh be for Steve um Steve closing the mission I think unlocks a milestone payment for Boeing um is that right and how much would that payment be and would Boeing get um all of any payment you know because Starliner came back on crude and I think if you mentioned a couple minutes ago um got to 85 90% of the objectives uh for the flight thanks yeah so there there are a couple Milestones uh out there relative to Ops Readiness that we'll have to assess and then certification is the big one that's the big one that's coming up and we were working toward that we'll have to look at relative to the systems that need to be changed what does that mean for certification um you know we there were some changes to the vehicle that we talked about pre-flight that that there's some changes to the suits that are going to happen changes to the seats that affect certification and then obviously uh another aspect that has to happen for certification is we need the vehicle to go to both node to Ford and Zenith port and those are all wrapped up in certification so we're in the process right now of laying all that work out in terms of what we had planned to do and then uh obviously what the changes are and then we'll assess that Milestone when it's the right time okay next we'll hear from Mara Smith with space policy [Music] online Mara if you're online you can ask your question now uh sorry I thought that Michael was still asking a question but anyway my question had to do with the crew module Thruster and I'm curious when is the last time that that Thruster was tested and were there any problems with the crew module Trust on the previous two flights uh let's see that's a good question the that Thruster uh the upfiring Thruster um ctu2 was last used uh in 2019 on the of1 mission it performed well all the thrusters on of one on the crew module performed well we did have one Thruster that uh was deselected by the software on of2 this was the crew module Thruster it was very late um around the time frame of drog deploy and we figured that to out to be a command problem so uh where the command didn't come out of What's called the integration propulsion controller correctly to the Thruster we took that Thruster off the vehicle and uh we went it sent it back to the vendor the vendor tested it hot fired it that Thruster worked fine this Thruster today looked different I would say um in terms of multiple try attempts to Hot Fire it it had no no response at all the Thruster that had failed off due to a command problem had had multiple Thruster firings uh it passed the hot fire in of1 uh I'm sorry in of2 and then also had multiple firings during the entry this one for some reason just never fired and so it looked like the valve perhaps was not opening for some reason so we'll have to take that Thruster off the vehicle when we get it back to the C3 PF send it back to the vendor for some analysis and then we'll know more about what uh what the fixes are for that as well okay now we are going to go to David Curley with Full Throttle you've talked to Steve in the past about uh you know what do we what do we do about the vehicle is it changing some of the materials in the thrusters is it redesigning the dogghouse um I I know you have a lot to learn still instead of going but how much work do you think is actually ahead is it is it just using a computer to tell the thrusters to fire in a certain way as you did on re-entry today to to change their performance what do you actually think you'll have to do yeah that's a good that's a good question and we have again uh several teams off looking at that what we would like to do is try not to change the Thruster I think think that is the the best path the thrusters have shown resilience and have shown that they perform well as long as we keep their temperatures down and don't don't fire them in a manner that causes the temperatures to go up that then causes either the vaporization of the oxidizer which causes low thrust or the popet swells um today obviously you know the thrusters at all recovered at station and obviously it looked like today we didn't uh have those high temperatures we knew that the downhill phase would be a little less demanding on the Thruster than the uphill phase what we need to do now is go take a Thruster at Whit ends and make sure we understand the exact pulse sequences that caused the heating and then uh at the same time in parallel look at software changes to reduce the the the number of Demands on the thrusters and then in parallel with that look at the dog houses and see if we can again they're trapping a bunch of heat we know that when we fire the thrusters the dock houses are trapping heat can we go make some changes to the blankets and the inside of the doghouses to keep the thrusters cooler so it's really three different thrust I would [Music] say okay next up we have Jonathan Woods with working tins hey thanks for your time uh this morning reflecting back on the question that was asked about the Successful Failure with Apollo 13 if we think back about 2020 when but Mike wall yeah hi I'm with space.com actually thank you for taking my question um yeah I just wanted to say first of all I mean congratulations on a successful landing and second I was just wondering if youve if you heard anything more from from Butch and sunny just kind of how they're feeling today what their reactions were to The Landing and just how they're feeling about yeah like the next few months that they'll that I'll be spending on orbit thanks I haven't spoken to them today obviously today was really busy they were on board uh doing a lot of work for us um they did wish the vehicle well and and best wishes for the landing and of course they they watched it the whole evening so no updates from what I reported before um you know after station's always busy I know I always tell you guys that but after Starliner departed they were off working on other activities ities for us so right away they jumped into some other work so no other updates from what I've reported to you previously okay and we've got one more question on the phone Bridge from Sophie Sanchez with Cosmic Chicago hi thank you for kicking my call um I had a question about the failed thrusters that were mentioned um was the Redundant Thruster that you mentioned I'm part of the same system and just a hypothetical question I guess if that had failed um what would have been next and what could have happened if they both failed thank you yeah the um we did have a redundant Thruster uh available on the crew module to do the function that we needed um we did need that Thruster to work during all of Entry so I wouldn't say all of Entry but through the highest part of Entry to a certain phase if that Thruster would have failed it would have been acceptable but um once we got off the separated from the service modor we no longer have those thrusters so the one remaining up firing Thruster worked just fine um we'll go back and understand what happened with the the ctu2 Thruster that failed and and we'll go solve that problem and move forward okay we did have one more question come in uh from Kenneth Chang with the New York Times yeah hi thank you uh this is from Steve Stitch um so during this news conference we've outlined a bunch of work that you need to do especially with the thrusters and the doghouses in the past you've also mentioned that it's really hard to test the doghouses on on the ground because getting the whole system to mimic what you see in space how will we be able will you be able to get enough data uh through simulations and through testing that you have the confidence for Starliner one without flying another test light yeah that that's a great question question we um we're going to take the data from this flight and and work to build models on the ground and then we're also going to look at is there a way to test uh what I would call an integrated dogghouse on the ground in a in a vacuum chamber we've got some ideas on maybe how to do that at Whit Sands we'll put a team together to see if we can actually put it in a chamber and and fire the omx and the other thrusters and and get that data in that environment and then you know extrapolate that data uh to the orbit vehicle so there may be a way we just need a little bit of time to work through that right well I think that is our last question so we will wrap up there thank you so much Tri briefers for sticking with us through uh a late night we really appreciate it and thanks to all of you for following along with Starliner test 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