Boeing Starliner Undocking from International Space Station - LIVE Breaking News Coverage

[Music] n [Music] good afternoon everybody it is Steve lner with the gender free TV we are here to bring you live coverage of the Boeing Starliner spacecraft but why am I hearing two things I'm hearing double things oh I'm hearing this person talk okay that was weird I was hearing double things um we're gonna see the Boeing Starliner spacecraft uh undock from the International Space Station and begin its journey home to Earth without a crew without a crew it's going to come back by itself uh look I had to move myself down a little bit because of the NASA logo I can't obscure the NASA logo so I move myself down but uh NASA's Boeing crew flight test that's what it's called that's what this whole the whole flight that start started in June that went up there in June and the flight home is called the crew flight test was supposed to be about 8 days it's been several months now but the undocking is coming up the undocking is coming up and then later tonight we're going to cover the landing The Landing is like after midnight uh give me a second here so the live stream starts at 5:45 and 34 minutes and we're going to watch it and we're going to talk talk about it okay let let's let's talk about this we're going to talk about this whole situation we're going to talk about the whole situation oops what I need to do for a second is let I'll I'll kind of summarize everything in a second but what I need to do is uh what am I doing here what am I doing here I'm going to ah do this put that up there that down put that there I see I see Boeing's baguer Space Capsule is heading back to Earth without two NASA astronauts now I know I'm nor I'm normally higher on the screen the reason the reason I'm not higher on the screen for this broadcast is I had to move myself because when we're showing this I I can't I can't block the NASA logo so I have to be below the NASA logo that's why I'm lower here see how that works okay so I'm sorry I'm a little lower in on the in the frame uh but uh but um we'll talk let's talk about what's going on that's an Associated Press article there basically the uh Boeing Spa Starliner spacecraft took two H astronauts up in June and then they were supposed to come back in like a week but there were problems with the spacecraft and NASA didn't feel confident enough to have the crew come back in the spacecraft so the crew is going to come back in February on a SpaceX crew Dragon spacecraft and the Starliner is coming back tonight by itself without a crew without a crew without a crew what was the date of it hold on the date it flew was it was was it June 5th it was I'm looking it up here according to Wikipedia it was June 5th it was June 5th when it headed up there all right so let's why didn't they send it up with without crew first I think they did send it up without crew first yeah uh or uh well orbital flight test two docked to the space station so in 2022 there was a flight test that did with no crew that docked to the space station this was going to be the first and only crude flight test that's why it's called NASA say Boeing crew flight test even though the crew isn't on the ride back hey thanks to uh Kath for your support and Carrie potit I really appreciate that let me thank our mods and then we'll get into this but we should have a in a half an hour we should have a live stream from NASA that we can show you uh thank you to Ruth crasi for moderating thank you Ruth um and thank you to Linda Bel and Larry our moderators on X and thank you to our twitch moderators hopefully this all goes right supposed to land in New Mexico after midnight uh over there on Twitch thanks to our moderators a moment of lovely David Green Idaho star I got that fire Mark and NC and Sharon c54 thanks to Wall Street for subscribing I appreciate that and thank you to Margaret Riley for moderating thank you Margaret I appreciate it so yes it is supposed to land at the uh what is it called I have to look it up here it's the white is it White Sands it's at the uh white sand space Harbor in New Mexico is where it's supposed to land so the landing is supposed to happen after midnight eastern time so uh The Landing supposed to happen after midnight eastern time okay and uh we'll cover that we're going to cover that starting I think Pro we'll probably come on the year around 10:30 p.m. or something like that 10 10:30 p.m. so we're going to we're going to bring the whole Landing to you later we'll do a separate stream for the landing NASA is not doing a six hour stream NASA is showing a feed of the undocking and then later on showing a feed of the landing so we're not going to stay on the air for no for just to talk to show you nothing for three hours in between or whatever it is uh thank you to Babs for the gift membership thank you to Z The Landing is supposed to be uh I think is it is it uh hold on I want to say 12 something I I got to look it up on on NASA and see remind myself when the exact Landing time is supposed to be it is supposed to be 12:03 a.m. is the targeted Landing 12:03 a.m. is the targeted Landing time okay so we'll be on before then hopefully it works hopefully I don't have any problems uh what was the strange noise that it was making uh there was a Ben there was a benign explanation for the noise there was like this viral story about how it was making a weird noise a couple weeks ago but it it was it was just uh I'll I posted it on my X account here NASA commercial crew a pulsing sound from the speaker and Boeing Starliner spacecraft heard by NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore aboard the International Space Station has stopped the feedback from the speaker was the result of an audio configuration between the space station and Starliner the space station audio system is complex allowing multiple spacecraft and modules to be interconnected and is common to experience noise and feedback the speaker feedback Wilmore reported has no technical impact to the crew star liner or station operations including star liners UNCW docking from the Star station no earlier than Friday September 6th so that was the that was the explanation for the uh for the sound um hey let's read about this so this is an AP article Boeing's baguer Space Capsule is heading back to Earth without two us uh two NASA astronauts it's got nobody on it tonight it's flying back autonomously well I I I don't know autonomous is correct because it's being controlled from the ground I believe um so uh after months of turmoil over its safety Boeing's new astronaut capsule I mean they've been working on this thing for years it's been delayed and delayed but its new astronaut capsule is set to leave the International Space Station on Friday without its crew NASA's two test pilots who flew it up there will stay behind at the space station they're home until next year as the Starliner capsule prepares to undock and aims for a touchdown 6 hours later in the New Mexico desert Butch Wilmore and Sunni Sunny Williams should have flown Starliner back to Earth in June a week after launching in it but Thruster failures and helium leaks marred their ride to the space station NASA ultimately decided it was too risky to return Wilmore and Williams on Starliner so the capsule contains their empty seats and blue space suits along with some old station equipment SpaceX will bring the duo back in late February stretching their original 8-day Mission to more than 8 months uh Boeing's first astronaut flight caps a journey filled with delays and setbacks after the space shuttles retired more than a decade ago NASA hired Boeing and SpaceX for orbital taxi service Boeing ran into so many problems on its first Ted flight test flight with nobody aboard in 2019 that it had to repeat it the 2022 doover C un uncovered even more flaws in the repair Bill toop billion spacex's crew faery flight later this month will be its 10th for NASA since 2020 the Dragon capsule will launch on the halfe Expedition with only two astronauts instead of four since two seats are reserved for willm and Williams for the return leg so there you go uh Jonathan says zero shot at lands we're going to do a poll about this so I hope everything goes okay with it today uh the reason I am a little lower than normal on the screen right now is because is that we are going to be showing you the NASA feed and I wanted I need to be below the NASA logo so I want I got to have you see the NASA logo up there so we'll be watching that uh thank you kamu for your support kamu we're going to do a poll in a second thank you also Nick Van Sickle and Babs and zyy for your support the poll is going to be will Starliner land on Earth intact that's the poll there's nobody on it there's nobody be on it will Starliner land on Earth intact that is the poll I'm going to ask you right now and a reminder uh tonight several hours after this we will come back on the air and cover the landing live coverage for you all right let's see what our viewers said in our poll here let's see what our viewers said in our poll here are the poll results right now over on YouTube the poll results are 56% say no it will not land intact 43% say yes slight me more think no and actually very close over there on Twitch very close on Twitch right now it is currently 6040 on Twitch 4951 so you're very close YouTube and twitch you are very close on this one is it going to land or poop on the ground with a parachute kind of thing you know I don't know I don't know how it lands I bet some of our audience members know I can try looking it up no by intact Val Val Val uh valova thank you by intact I mean without any kind of significant structural damage all right well more of you think it's going to have some problem Landing intact than not uh and not be able to Integrity farmer Bob says looks like a shoot design oh uh what the hus says where it lands on airbags you know I think I have a picture of it that reminds me what the H I think I have a picture of that let me let me um uh let me let me pull that up all right first of all thanks for boting the poll thank you for voting oh all right hold on a second here yes so this is a photo from NASA right there that's a photo of the Starliner when it landed after its test flight in 2022 at White Sands Missile Range is space Harbor so it looks like it's I mean at least it looks like there oh yeah there are landing bags I actually I'm reading I'm reading to you from NASA NASA says once Starliner re-enters Earth's atmosphere the forward heat shield located on the top of the spacecraft is jettisoned at 30,000 ft exposing the two drogue and three main parachutes for deployment so they are parachutes the parachutes will continue to slow the spacecraft down as the base he Shield is jettisoned at 3,000 ft allowing the six Landing bags to inflate at touchd drown the spacecraft is traveling approximately four miles an hour now we're going to see that later tonight on this stream we're not going to see that because this stream is about the Starliner undocking from the uh from the space station oh wow uh malachite says it will land with a Boeing Boeing Boeing oh my gosh malachite you really should be timed out for that um do they need to load it with weights to account for missing astronauts that I do not know it's a good question I don't know if they're doing that um let me just show you some more let me just read you some more about this I actually have this timeline from NASA the Starliner spacecraft is the first American capsule designed to touchdown on land not water supporting expedited astronaut and cargo recovery on future missions and to Aid the C company in spacecraft refurbishment it is supposed to land tonight in the um White Sands Missile Range so it says here when teams proceed with undocking Starliner will complete a series of departure Burns allowing it to reach its Landing site in as little as 6 hours okay once clear to proceed Starliner executes its deorbit burn which lasts approximately 60 seconds slowing it down enough to re-enter 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 following service module Separation The Command Module ual Maneuvers into re-entry position during re-entry the capsule experiences plasma buildup reaching temperatures up to 3,000 Dees fahit that may interrupt Communications with the sat with the spacecraft for approximately 4 minutes one star liner re-enters the Earth's atmosphere the forward heat shield located on the top of the spacecraft is jettison at 30,000 ft exposing the two Dro and three main parachutes for deployment by the way a drog parachute is a parachute designed for deployment from a rapidly using object that's according to Wikipedia if I'm pronouncing that right I think I am uh anyways after it let's after it the parachutes come out the parachutes will slow down the spacecraft as the base heat shield is jettisoned at 3,000 ft allowing the six Landing bags to flate at touchdown a spacecraft spacecraft is traveling at approximately 4 miles an hour and this is what it's supposed to look like because that's what it will something like that that's that's what the landing was like in 2022 of that test flight with the airbags hey thank you Babs for your support thank you Babs for the gift membership uh hey in about 15 minutes the live stream from NASA starts how about that oops one moment here why is oh I was already doing this so this maybe I can give you a little more of a summary of of what the problems were for I know a bunch of you have been keeping up with this but it was only supposed to this was supposed to be the this was supposed to be the third test flight of this Starliner which has been delayed has had like I believe years of delays and over cost overruns and the Hope was that this test flight which would be its first man test flight would go really well and then they could certify it to start run doing regular missions bringing astronauts to and from the space station but there were problems with thrusters and uh and helium leaks and um on the flight up and uh they studied NASA studied it for a while and ultimately they just couldn't they had doubts I remember we covered the press conference and they said they had I believe they said they had doubts about the thrusters they couldn't figure out enough about what was making the thrusters not work and have have enough confidence that uh they couldn't figure out enough to have enough confidence in this thing bringing the astronauts home not the confidence level they wanted hey thanks Bruce Kaiser Bruce says maneuvering a spacecraft while an orbit is completely counterintuitive and very complicated see orbital mechanics thank you Bruce Kaiser let me show you a little a little other background about this boing Starliner is set to return home Friday with no astronauts says Washington Post Deep Purple fan thinks it will be a fiery but most uneventful return to Earth Kathy says can't wait uh moments in trading says if it lands fine the two astronauts will probably be upset tomorrow oh thanks Janet Bernett that's so nice of you thank you Janet I appreciate that now wheelie HD says wonder where butches going to sleep he was sleeping in Starliner is that true I didn't know that other lady is sleeping in a Chinese capsule docked at space station well at this point but at this point aren't there there's a so I got to look at the schedule but I I the there's other cap there's there's seven other Crews still on the space station besides them I think but I believe if I if I'm getting this right if I'm getting my timing right soon some there's a soyu spacecraft that's going to take three as astronauts out of there I got a I'm not aware of this whole Sleeping thing so I can't I can't oh uh ft kftw says no China craft at ISS I haven't heard anything about them having issues sleeping so one of our viewers was saying this I know nothing about this I can tell you what the current craft are doct at the space station hold on visiting Vehicles visiting vehicles um should say it right here right here uh Starliner is attached to it Crew 8 dragon is attached soy use which is another cap crew capsule uh progress in progress I believe are both resupply uh resupply ships progress 88 and progress 89 are resupply ships soy is a cruise ship crew dragon is a cruise ship Cru flight Str Starliner is a cruise ship that that's that's Cru a crew ship that's going to undock tonight and signis is a um looks like it's saying signis is the Northrup Grumman Supply ship sign signis 21 yes signis is a cargo spacecraft So currently there are three cargos there's there's two Supply ships I there's two resupply ships and a cargo ship and maybe those are maybe they're all technically cargo ships um uh the three and then there's three crew capsules attached right now and soyu I believe is a Russian one and two American ones SpaceX and Boeing yeah soy uses a Russian spacecraft and it carries people and supplies to and from the space station that's from NASA so that's a nice yeah I haven't heard about anything about sleeping issues but I don't know uh let's see here um there was an article in Business Insider that says no I can't see that one where is it here oh I think our viewer what is this I'm a little confused I'm not going to worry about the sleeping stuff now it looks like they had to make some certain sleeping Arrangements uh oh I can find yes there are seven permanent sleeping spaces I believe according to USA Today but there are other places at the space station where at astronauts can sleep okay anyways um hey let's let's talk about this enough about the sleeping um let me give you a little background here we're waiting so again in in about 10 minutes we'll start to get a live stream from NASA and 26 minutes is when the undocking is going to happen which we'll be watching live we should be watching live um shortly after midnight it's supposed to land in New Mexico we'll cover that on a SE on a separate stream and uh thanks by the way to Babs for the gift membership and Carrie potit for more gift membership so nice of you thanks also to zanti Misfit what if it flies off course public danger I don't know what kind of uh what kind of sa of safety is built in for something if it were to fly off course uh uh maybe there's some kind of destruct self-destruct mechanism on these things I don't know uh I don't believe that's a serious worry although I guess in theory if if if if the th if all of the propulsion means stopped working that could be an issue uh so I I don't know if these things come with like a self-destruct mechanism or something I have no idea maybe they don't maybe they figure it's not worth putting on it's it's all cost and effect hey thank you to Ben Ben says hey Drew glad you're finally finally tuning in aftv and thank you Lucia herizo I will cover after I will be covering it tonight too thank you Zach a Zach a says on poly Market people are betting on whether it successfully returns to earth I'm trying to find it I I I looked it up on on poly market and I can't find it oh will Boeing Starliner successfully return to Earth people are betting on it and yes is the favorite yes is the favorite over no 88% chance according to the betters on poly Market uh real quick I just want to look at this for a second Boeing Starliner set to return home Friday with no astronauts says Washington Post um the Boeing Starliner Space Capsule that lost NASA officials confidence to safely bring home two astronauts will begin its return from orbit with no crew very shortly and if all goes well it will parachute to a landing in New Mexico early tomorrow shortly after midnight tonight says Washington Post but even a successful Landing will be something of a hollow Victory the LA uh the last leg of the groundbreaking Mission would conclude a test flight that strained relations between Boeing and NASA and raised questions about when the Starliner will become fully operational uh NASA officials have did NASA officials um so so again this spacecraft brought two astronauts to the International Space Station in early June it was supposed to stay about a week but the spacecraft was deemed unfit to bring them home because of equipment issues those astronauts will come home in February in a SpaceX capsule the plan is to have Starliner undock around 6:04 p.m. in about 22 minutes uh depending on the weather using Thruster Burns it will be steered towards Earth to begin its descent into the atmosphere officials expect the uncrewed capsule will land at White Sand space Harbor in New Mexico around 12:03 a.m. tonight tomorrow morning Saturday morning uh the spacecraft's return without the two astronauts represents a stinging loss for Boeing which had hoped that this test flight would lead to regular operational missions for the spacecraft but because the Starliner experienced Thruster problems and helium leaks as it brought the pair of astronauts up to the space station NASA and because NASA couldn't figure out what was going on well enough for their for for them to be confident enough um NASA deemed the complete round true round trip with the crew too risky now Boeing will have to continue to run tests on the Starliner on the ground before it can be fully certified for future crude flights um let's see the challenges are not over the space ax dragon mission that is set to bring home Willmore and Williams is SL is slated to watch and go up there on September 24th that that capsule will remain there till February when it will return with the two astronauts it's taking up and the two who are there now will Wilmore and Williams the two who were stuck there okay all right guys uh very close to starting on with the NASA live feed very close to this starting in about two minutes the NASA live feed is supposed to start okay so we're going to have a live feed from NASA of this um and you can see right there we're waiting for it to come on the air and we're going to cover this and we should see the Starliner undock from the space station and at some point that live stream will end and NASA will take a live stream break and we will will eventually end the stream after that because several hours later uh they will do another stream and we will cover the Landing in New Mexico I anticipate coming on the year for that maybe around between 10 and 10:30 p.m. eastern Time is when we'd come on the year for that so we'll be back after this stream with another stream okay we're very close to this live thing starting here let me read some more comments from you sorry I'm trying to keep an eye on everything here hold on I have to pull up something else on my screen as well oh oh hold on hold on I got to turn the music off gotta turn the music off music is off the music is off there we go look undocking undocking starting soon the live stream is starting soon it is starting soon it has music that I can't play because it because I it might be copyrighted hey thank you Babs for the gift membership thanks RS Pat for your support thank you Georgia Peach for being a member Janet Bernett thanks for the gift memberships thank you thank you Glenn barrows for being a new member all right guys we are getting close you can see it there and about a minute they're going to do the live stream there wow it's really it's getting serious here here we go here we go I'm gonna put my little live thing up my little Live sign get that going that's too big too big no too small I me there we go that's a nice size live oh can I use my live hold on they're doing something they're doing something and welcome to the Starliner Mission Control in Houston where teams are preparing for the autonomous undocking and departure of the uncrewed Boeing Starliner spacecraft from the International Space Station undocking today is currently planned for 5:04 p.m. central 6:04 p.m. Eastern I'm Anna Schneider with NASA Communications and joining me today in Starliner mission control is Lauren breni from Boeing Communications across the hall in the International Space Station flight control room we also have NASA's Rob navius in preparation for today's undocking activities the teams here in Starliner mission control and the flight control room flight control team in the International Space Station flight control room recently completed the go no go Poll for starliners undocking the teams all pulled go to proceed with undocking and the team here in Starin or Mission Control is being led by flight director Chloe Marin today's undocking will set Starliner on its path home for a landing at White Sand space Harbor in New Mexico targeting approximately 11:00 p.m. central Friday September 6th midnight Eastern on Saturday NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and sunny Williams flew to the International Space Station in June as part of NASA's Boeing crew flight test lifting off a top a United launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from SP space launch complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral space for station in Florida on June 5th the Starliner spacecraft docked to the International Space Station on June 6th during the June 6th Rendevous NASA and Boeing identified helium leaks and experienced issues with the spacecraft reaction control system or RCS thrusters as Starliner approached the station since then engineering teams have completed a significant amount of work including reviewing a collection of data conducting flight and ground testing hosting independent reviews with agency propulsion experts and developing various return contingency plans the uncertainty and lack of expert concurrence did not meet the agency's safety and performance requirements for human space flight thus prompting the NASA decision to return Boeing Starliner spacecraft to Earth without astronauts buch Willmore and sunny Williams aboard the uncrewed return allows NASA and Boeing to continue Gathering testing data on Starliner during its upcoming flight home while also not accepting more risk than is necessary for its crew Wilmore and Williams will continue their work formally as part of the Expeditions 71 and 72 crew through February of 2025 they will then fly home aboard a dragon spacecraft with two other crew members assigned to the agency SpaceX crew 9 mission NASA astronaut Nick ha and Ross Cosmos Cosmonaut Alexander goranov as part of NASA's commercial crew program this is Boeing second flight to the International Space Station and third Starliner flight test overall following a second orbital flight test in May of 2022 they got some snacks out there it looks like am I wrong or those snacks am I wrong on that table there yesterday the hatches were closed between Starliner and the International Space Station there are three hatches that separate the inside of Starliner from the orbiting laboratory the Starliner hatch and the AP pass hatch and no two forward hatch on the station side following hatch closure teams work through steps to depressurize the vestibule which is the area between the station hat hat and Starliner hatch that were exposed to the vacuum of space prior to docking shortly after the go no go poll earlier today where the joint teams here in the Starliner mission control and the International Space Station Mission Control polled go for undocking NASA astronaut Sunny Williams called down to the flight control team on Space deg ground to share some words with the team before star liner's departure later today we'll go ahead and Replay that exch exchange for you now oh Sunny Williams earlier today station Houston Space to ground two for Starliner undoc status this is earlier today go ahead we're with you hey Sun both the Starliner and ISS flight control teams have pulled go for undock at this time the expected undock time is 22 col 04 okay cppy 2204 there she is 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 and 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 that was earlier today that audio wonderful comic uh flight we 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 I assume that's Butch wilmore's voice happy thank you and have a good evening those are the two astronauts who can't come back yet because they took the Starliner up and now they're stuck there until February but the uncrewed Starliner is about to come back tonight with no crew on it with no crew on it just over 13 minutes away away from today's planned undocking as we continue to approach that undocking you can see the team here in the Starliner Mission Control team working um in tandem with the ISS flight control room across the hallway hey thanks P the air here the teams opened up the helium manifold to check Starliner leak rate everything looks good the teams say the rate remains steady and we have plenty of margin for the ex uh rest of the flight so let's talk a little bit about what is coming up at around 5:02 p.m. central 602 Eastern we are going to be listening for the authority to proceed for undocking after the ATP or authority to proceed is issued for undocking the hooks on the NASA docking system will begin to open there are 12 hooks that seal the surfaces between the docking system and the ISS International docking adapter or the da once all of those hooks are open Springs on Starliner docking ring will push the spacecraft away from the space station so again we're expecting that undocking at 50:4 p.m. central 6:04 Eastern and then just a few seconds later at about 5 m out our first separation burn starliners thrusters will complete two short firings to gradually increase the separation speed to help the spacecraft carefully move away from the orbiting laboratory the command given to liner will be to back straight away to the 200 M mark But then a few seconds later a second command will be given before it gets too far to change that path and head up higher than station these 12 pre-planned Burns will be performed with starliners forward- facing reaction control system or RCS thrusters which have been performing nominally during this flight Starliner will then begin a breakout burn which will take the space c craft forward and above the station during this burn sequence starliners thrusters will perform a series of 12 short firings this entire sequence will take about 5 minutes to complete and will allow Starliner to quickly break out outside of the approach ellipsoid or AE about 4 minutes into this Burns sequence Starliner will exit the keep out sphere or Kos the keep out sphere is an imaginary 200 met sphere centered on the space station once outside the keep out sphere vehicles must provide a four orbit safe free drift trajectory around 5:10 p.m. central that automated breakout sequence will be completed and then just 15 minutes later we will be out of the approach ellipsoid the approach ellipsoid is in the same family as the keep out sphere but this time it is an imaginary three-dimensional ellipsoid around the space station Vehicles outside the approach ellipsoid have to be on what we call a 24-hour safe free drift trajectory and that means the spacecraft would not cross over that imaginary line for at least 24 hours even if it lost all maneuvering capabilities once outside the approach ellipsoid joint operations between the Starliner mission control and International Space Station flight control room will conclude and Starliner will be on a path back to Earth so pretty soon after it undocks it's going to start firing some thrusters a few minutes ago teams completed a final weather briefing to analyze weather predictions for the landing site at wh sand space Harbor in New Mexico and the weather continues to look good to support a landing later today as part of the departure preparations for Starliner Mission managers completed a series of operational and weather checks yesterday 24 hours before undocking NASA analyzed the weather predictions for the landing site and there are several different weather criteria that must be met including winds at the selected Landing site must be approximately 13 mph or 12 knots or less when uncrewed and ground temperatures must be warmer than 15° fah and the cloud ceiling must be at least 1,000 ft one nautical mile of visibility is also required and the area must be clear of precipitation thunderstorms and lightning within an approximately 22m radius a final weather check will also take place before the spacecraft SE orbit burn which is currently scheduled for 10:17 p.m. central 11:17 p.m. Eastern and following the weather briefing the navigation and docking lights on Starliner were turned on the Lars were confirmed to operate and the r cards were enabled for departure the Lars or laser detection and ranging lasers create a 3D picture of the International Space Station for starliners computers to help the spacecraft guide itself around the ISS when it's flying close to the station the ladar system was developed and tested in orbit aboard the space shuttle as they docked with ISS the r cards or remote analog interface unit gathers data on the status and health of critical spacecraft systems during All Phases of the mission this allows the important systems information to be stored aboard the spacecraft so Engineers can review it once the spacecraft lands getting close to undocking time guys but seven minutes until undocking the unmanned spacecraft they're going to try to bring it home it is the Boeing Starliner spacecraft which was supposed to take two astronauts to the space station for about a week but it had some issues and they are flying it back empty hey thanks so much to MTI Corker and Ricky grey Bill and Thomas Krueger and py papulu and Chris Canada Quebec City and Steve Griffiths for your support thank you thanks to all of our moderators too Ruth cfas is over there Linda Bel and Larry thank you for moderating um oops hold on a second here quick thanks to Margaret Riley thanks to all of our mods Ronald egg IGN thank you Ronald twitch mods a moment of lovely big ball of yarn David Green elb Prairie Dawn I got that fire Markin andc Sharon c54 thanks for modding now this says we're now just over 6 minutes away from the planned undocking at 5:04 p.m. central as we continue to stand by for Starliner departure from the International Space Station I'll hand it over to NASA's Rob navius for an update from the International Space Station flight control room thanks Anna here in the space station flight control room at the Johnson Space Center in Houston the uh flight control team led by flight director Anthony varia is in the final moments before the expected undocking of uh Starliner from the forward Port of the harmony module on the International Space Station once uh the undocking is complete and Starliner has exited the approach ellipsoid that you heard Lauren describing just a moment or two ago the uh nine crew members on board the station led by Commander Al kononenko will begin their sleep period they're going to be moving into an off-duty period on Saturday the vacancy of the forward Port of Harmony will open up uh that port for the uh beginning of two crew rotations over the next several weeks next Wednesday NASA's Don Pettit and roscosmos cosmonauts Al Alexi of chinin and Ivan V hner will be launching from the bik and or cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a two orbit Rendevous to reach the International Space Station that will swell the station's population to 12 wow and uh begin an 11-day Handover with NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson and kenko and Nikolai Tru who will be departing the station on September 23rd a day later if everything goes as planned NASA NASA's uh Nick ha and Ros OS cosmina alexand Alexander gorinov will be launching from the Cape Canaveral space force station on the SpaceX crew Dragon Freedom uh they will uh be a two-man crew to reach the International Space Station and provide the orbital Uber if you will for Butch Wilmore and sunny Williams to come home on next February with Wilmore and Williams completing what is expected to be about a 262 day Mission meanwhile the crew at crew Matt Dominic Mike Barrett Janette EPs and Alexander greenin are in the final weeks of their mission on board the station they are planning to depart after a 5-day Handover with heg and gorbin off that Handover will uh lead the way for a departure on or around October 1st the crew a crew will then be coming home to bring the station back to its compliment of seven crew members so with that we're about uh 3 and A2 minutes away from the planned on undocking of Starliner will be watching carefully it will take about 21 1/2 minutes from undocking for Starliner to exit the approach ellipsoid that you heard Lauren describe a moment ago that's that 2 and 1/2 Mile Long by 1.2 mile wide coridor if you will the neighborhood of the International Space Station so we'll be following along as Starliner begins its journey home and a landing at midnight eastern time at the we sand space Harbor in New Mexico with that we'll turn it back to you Anna in the Starliner control room wow let me fix something station Houston Space 2 for Starliner undoc status go ahead ISS and Starliner flight control teams remain go for an ontime undock at 2204 please perform 1 decimal 106 crew cst1 100 approach and departure monitoring steps two decimal 2 and two decimal 3 verbally call Houston when physical set is confirmed be advised that NDS hook Motors are driving space to space c may be ready I say crew copies ready for un do monitoring thank you Rob and we just heard some conversation between the crew on the International Space Station and the teams here in the Starliner michig control confirming that we are continuing to be go for an undock in just under 2 minutes from now at 5:04 p.m. e Central 6:04 p.m. Eastern we are standing by for the command of the undock ATP or authority to proceed all we once the authority to proceed is issued for undocking the NDS or NASA docking system hooks will begin to open and there are 12 hooks that seal the surfaces between the NDS and the ISS International docking adapter Ida once all 12 hooks are open Springs on Starliner docking ring will push the spacecraft away from the space station I might move my flight director Chloe Marion just asked for quiet in the room as we are approaching one minute out from Starliner on all right and we just heard confirmation that the umbilicals are retracting and hooks are beginning to drive I'm going to move myself over so I can show you the logo I got to have the logo up there so ignore am I moving myself over while we do this oh look Steve is moving what just is happening can I get this to work this is never going to work it's already not working why is this not working oh I see 30 seconds it's un it's look it's it's unlocking 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 sorry I was trying to move myself it didn't work well but we we got to see this is now about two meters away from the International Space Station at the time of undocking Starliner and the International Space Station were flying approximately 260 statute miles over Central China it undocked it's it's undocked look at this Starliner will be beginning a breakout burn soon which will take the spacecraft forward and above station breakout burn coming up you can see some thrusters fired during this burn sequence Starliner 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 or AE and about 4 minutes into the burn sequence Starliner will exit the keep out Sphere for the Kos yeah this is pretty neat going to see the thrusters soon are they going to close the hatch that's a good question see dusters firing there on the left of your screen as away from space station I didn't see them fire on the left of the screen just at 35 M away from the International Space Station I saw a Thruster fire we saw a good first burn enabled confirmation all 27 Jets have fired wow Houston cop ISS thrusters enabled wow you seen the light show there on your screen pretty crazy look at this it's like it's not real three of the 12 firings have completed and there's about a 100 second pause until the fourth burn they keep doing those Thruster firings look at that wow Starliner is about 60 M away and fight controllers are reporting good attitude and good control we are standing by for the fourth of the 12 Burns and 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 met sphere centered on the space station we are 15 seconds away from the fourth burn in the series of 12 there you go more thrusters more thrusters look at that wow I need to saw burn four which just completed we're hearing good burn look at those thrusters amazing and the fifth burn and that sequence of 12 just completed and it was a good burn 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 crazy wow almost doesn't look real I mean it is real but it's just crazy to see it you might be able to see some of those lights on the front of Starline 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 undocking axis and we just heard good confirmation of both Burns seven and eight completed Starliner undocked approximately 5 minutes ago and has just a handful of short firings left in its breakouts breakout burn and it is now about 150 M away from the International Space Station and we heard confirmation of a good burn n three more to go wow burn 10 good burn so far so good we have one more burn to go but they have confirmed that Starliner has cross the keep out sphere or the Kos which is an imaginary 200 M sphere centered on the AAL space station that helps flight controllers here on the ground monitor the arrival and departure of visiting Vehicles station Houston Space ground 2 Starliner has exited the keep out sphere it's out of the keep out sphere she's exited the keep out sphere a reminder this automated breakout sequence was chosen to use starliners forward thrusters which have remained nominal during this flight and we heard confirmation that all 12 Burns in this series of breakout burn firings have completed and they were all good Burns Starliner has crossed the keot sphere so the next milestone for Star liner's departure will be crossing the approach ellipsoid or AE the AE is another invisible shape monitored by the flight control team measuring 4 km x 2 km x 2 km Starliner is scheduled to cross the approach ellipsoid in about 10 minutes Vehicles outside the AE have to be on what we call a 24-hour safe free drift trajectory which means the spacecraft would not cross into the approach of ID for at least 24 hours even if it lost all maneuvering capabilities once outside the approach ellipsoid joint operations between Starliner mission control and the International Space Station flight control room will conclude and Starliner will be on a path back to Earth there is no one in it there were supposed to be two astronauts in it but NASA was not confident enough in it bringing them back safely so it's coming back by look from the Vesta system which stands for vision based Electro Optical sensor tracking assembly it's a bit of a mouthful so we like to call it Vesta and this is a look from Starliner back at the International Space Station the system is really the eyes of Starliner it's able to pick up on features on the outside of station like handrails and reflectors you can see some of that on your screen there in the outlines and it's the way to assess Starliner position and attitude it also gives the ground teams a very accurate look at Starliner location relative to the station so earlier we were taking a look from the station back at Starliner now we're looking from Starliner back at station we're just under 10 minutes away from the AE exit so in the meantime we will check back in with NASA's Rob navius and the internationala space station flight control room Rob thank you guys um flight Dynamics has reported that Starliner is on a perfect trajectory backing away from the International Space Station and opening uh a rate of about 13 12 statued miles per rev at the time of the deorbit burn at uh 1017 and 13 seconds p.m. central time later this evening the uh vehicle will be about 56 statued miles away from the International Space Station that deorbit burn by the way will be a 59 second burn to slow Starliner down by Co with the forward Port of Harmony now vacant that sets the stage as I mentioned a few minutes ago for the start of a couple of crew rotations that are coming up down at the bikon or Cosmo Drome in Kazakhstan Don peted of NASA and roscosmos cosmonauts Alexi o chinin and Ivon Vagner and their backups are in the final stages of their preparations for launch next Wednesday their soyu 2.1a booster and the so ms20 6 spacecraft that they will ride to orbit uh they that vehicle will roll out to the Launchpad in bikan or on Sunday and then final preparations will lead them to a launch next Wednesday at 11:23 a.m. Central Time heading for a two orbit 3-hour 10-minute journey to dock to the International Space Station's rosette module now that forward port on Harmony that was just vacated by Starliner departure will be the Port of Call for NASA astronaut Nick and Ros Cosmos cosmina Alexander gorinov and their launch no earlier than September 24th on the SpaceX Dragon Freedom spacecraft off of launch complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral space force station that will be about a 30-hour transit for those uh two crew members to reach the International Space Station and the automated docking to the forward Port of Harmony ultimately he gorbin off Butch Wilmore and Sunny Williams will do a relocation of the uh SpaceX Dragon spacecraft from the forward Port of Harmony to the Zenith Port of Harmony opening up that forward port for the arrival of the next SpaceX cargo ship SpaceX 31 that's scheduled for launch in October so a lot of activities uh lying ahead for the space station crew the uh crew aboard the International Space Station soon will begin its sleep period and an off duty Day on on Saturday while the activity shifts over to the white flight control room down the hall as they are in a shift Handover right now uh flight director Rick henling will be taking over shortly to supervise entry and Landing operations and uh the team over there will be monitoring the progress of Starliner as it moves to its deorbit position about 56 statued miles away from the International Space Station with that we'll turn it back to the white ficker and Anna and Lauren I don't know if we don't have the video anymore of the uh of the actual oh we he got the video than Rob Starliner is now about 750 m away from the International Space Station as it continues to make its way to the approach ellipsoid exit again that approach ellipsoid exit is targeted for 5:25 and 30 seconds p.m. central Time 6:25 and 302s p.m. eastern time and everything continues to proceed as planned with Starliner departure and return back to Earth and you're looking live at Starliner in free drift Engineers telling us that the breakout Burns all went well thrusters are all looking good everything is nominal as we continue up and around space station and head back to Earth everything good so far guys again starer and do just a short while ago from the International Space Station at 5:4 p.m. central 6:04 p.m. Eastern as the space station in Starliner were flying approximately 260 statute miles over Central China and shortly after that physical separation starliners thrusters completed two short firings to gradually increase the separation speed and help the spacecraft carefully move away from the orbiting laboratory as part of the separation Burns and Then star Starliner began the breakout burn which was a series of 12 short firings which allowed the spacecraft to quickly move outside um the keep out sphere and is now approaching the um approach ellipsoid exit and once Starliner is outside of the paraloid The Joint operations between teams here in the Starliner mission control and the International Space Station flight control room across the hall will end and Starliner will be back on its path to Earth it is supposed to land in New Mexico shortly after midnight tonight eastern time and we are away from that approach ellipsoid exit and Starliner is now about 900 M away from the International Space Station traveling at a rate of 1.2 m/ second so it's right now it's over a half mile away from the International Space Station they just said that dot in the center of your screen is Starliner looking from space station thanks Arian 7 and Babs and Kenneth Colton and grevin Sher for your support where' it go move the camera oh there we go oh look at that little graphical representation there you see the graphic of the space station in the star liner what happened what happened what happened to it we are now about 5 minutes away from the approach ellipsoid exit Starliner undocked from the International Space Station about 16 minutes ago at 5:04 p.m. central 6:04 p.m. Eastern Starliner is now just over a th000 met away from the International Space Station after Starliner crosses the approach ellipsoid the next milestones for the vehicle will be its entry cover closure and that is planned for about 6:42 p.m. central 7:42 p.m. Eastern and then there will be some checkouts of the omac thrusters at 7:05 p.m. central 8:05 p.m. Eastern and then after that we get into the inur and Landing coverage and the go noo for the deorbit burn will be at approximately 9:57 p.m. central 1057 p.m. Eastern following with the deorbit burn about 20 minutes later at 10:17 p.m. central 11:17 p.m. Eastern they said in like I think they said in an hour and good views of starliners leaving the International Space Station it's that dot on your screen look at that the vehicle is now about 1,120 M away from the International Space Station I think they said that they closed the entry cover in like an hour and 20 minutes and we just heard confirmation that Starliner is out of the approach ellipsoid the approach ellipsoid is a imaginary three-dimensional ellipsoid around the space station and V Vehicles outside of the approach ellipsoid have to be on what we call a 24-hour safe free drift trajectory which means the spacecraft would not cross into the approach ellipsoid for at least 24 hours even if it lost all maneuvering capabilities now that Starliner is outside of the approach ellipsoid joint operations between the Starliner mission control and International Space Station fight control room will conclude and Starliner is now on on a path back to Earth so once again Starliner undocked from the International Space Station at 5:04 p.m. central 6:04 p.m. Eastern as the space station was flying 260 statute miles over Central China shortly after physical separation starliners thrusters completed two short firings to gradually increase the separation speed to help the spacecraft carefully move away from the orbiting laboratory Starliner then began the breakout burn and Starliner smaller Jets performed a series of 12 short Burns to allow the spacecraft to quickly move outside the approach ellipsoid Starliner again crossed the approach ellipsoid moments ago and is now on its journey home the next milestones for Starliner ahead of its deorbit burn targeted for 107 p.m. include crossing the entry cover closing the entry cover and conducting checkouts of the omx or the orbital maneuvering and attitude control thrusters those are the bigger Jets on Starliner oh look at that again The Landing now let's check in one final time with NASA's Rob navius following Starliner exit from the approach ellipsoid thank you guys uh here in the space station flight control room flight director Anthony varia and his team will be remaining on console throughout the course of the evening keeping a watchful eye on things for Starliner status Calypso has exited the approach ellipsoid Sunny we are ready for RWS tear down when you are okay she's on her way home congratulations to the undar team and we'll be teing down the copy thanks I think that was sunny Williams the astronaut spacecraft communicators here in the station flight control room talking to Sunny Williams International Space Station the uh Starliner is ECT trajectory moving well away from the International Space Station where it's deorbit burn at 10:17 and 13 seconds p.m. this evening once again that'll be a 59 second burn of the four orbital maneuvering and attitude control system uh Jets on the Starliner spacecraft to slow Starliner down by 129.99 m/s allowing it to drop out of orbit to begin its uh uh descent back into the Earth's atmosphere and a landing just about midnight Eastern Time 11:00 p.m. central Time give or take a few seconds at the wh sand space Harbor in New Mexico with that the space station team will begin to turn its attention to the next major activity that will be the launch out of the bikon or cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday of NASA's Don Pettit and rosmos cosmonauts alexe of chinan and Ivan Vagner on the soyu's ms26 spacecraft that will increase the station's population from 9 to 12 and the beginning of a busy several weeks of crew rotations on the International Space Station leading to the start of expedition 72 so with that uh we're going to call it a day here in the space station flight control room turn it back to you guys in the white flight control room down the hall all right thank you very much Rob Starliner is now on its way back home to Earth and has about a 6-hour journey ahead of Landing we are targeting again around 11:00 Central midnight Eastern for that landing at White Sand space haror in New Mexico we we will resume live coverage of starliners D orbit entry and Landing beginning at 9:50 p.m. central 10:50 p.m. Eastern until then thank you for joining us for starliners undocking and departure from the International Space Station this is Mission Control Houston okay oh there you go oops all right so what's going to happen is what's going to happen is um the Starliner has just uh left do you guys do you guys want to see the undocking again why don't we let's watch the undocking again even though let's watch the undocking again we're going to do a little replay of the undocking then we'll talk about this but um but uh so we're going to talk a little more here now and then I'll take a break I'll Pro the next the next live stream from NASA isn't until 10:50 p.m. so we're going to do we're going to do some more of this hold on a second here hold on one second um so we'll do some more coverage right now and then eventually we'll take a break and then come back and do another stream for the for the landing but uh let's real quick I'll just send you over to the undocking watch this all right so let's let's watch this is going to be the undocking here hold on let me just get let me get it queed up let me get it queed up I got to ceue it up for you I I don't remember when exactly it happen there it is oh it's right around here okay this is going to be a replay we're going to do a replay of the undocking all right so replay here is a replay of the undocking when it happened I'll get myself out of the way all right this is from NASA here it is so we were watching here this is a replay keep your eye out any moment now this is the undocking again I think I queued it up basically there it is wow that's what it looked like when it was UND ducked how about that how about that then we'll replay the thrusters working too that was what about half an hour ago or something so we're just we're just replaying this moments uh from a short while ago moments ago I should put up moments ago on the screen oh hold on let me have it say let me have it say moments ago Starliner will be beginning a breakout burn soon which will take the spacecraft forward and above station we're watching this replay during this burn sequence Starliner thrust 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 ellip or AE and about 4 minutes into the burn sequence Starliner will exit the keep out sphere or the Kos so I'm going to show you guys we're just going to watch again when the when you'll see the thrusters firing which is which is really cool they have the thrusters firing a bunch so I'm just replaying this part again so we can see it again you can see those thrusters firing there on the left of your screen as Starliner backs away from space station see the left screen and we are now just at 35 M away from the International Space Station keep watching keep watching we saw a good first burn watch this you'll see the thrusters fir ISS ISS thrusters enabled confirmation all 27 Jets have fired Houston copies ISS enabled and you're seeing the light show there on your screen it's pretty neat look at at that look at that three of the 12 F have completed and there's about a 100 second pause until the fourth burn again this was moments ago probably about 2030 minutes ago we watched this just watching the thrusters again look at that St is about 60 M away watch a little more of this more thrusters more thrusters to come 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 met sphere centered on the space station we are 15 seconds away from the fourth burn in the series of 12 all right watch more thrusters is going to happen right now more thrusters coming right there wow and you just saw burn four which just completed we're hearing good burn again it's very cool and the fifth burn and that sequence of 12 just completed and it was a good burn so this thing is going to land if everything goes right it's going to land a little after midnight in New Mexico a little after midnight eastern time oh look at that in uh in New Mexico 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 and we'll be doing coverage of that we got a bunch of coverage coming up we 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 undocking access and we just heard good confirmation of both Burns seven and eight completed Starliner undocked approximately 5 minutes ago and has just a handful of short firings left in its breakouts breakout burn and it is now about 150 M away from the International Space Station and we heard confirmation of a good burn nine three more to go we'll just watch the burns look at this wow we just watch these Burns again couple more this is a replay from about 20 25 minutes well look at that about 25 minutes ago I think 20 minutes ago burn 10 good burn look at that wow we have one more burn to go but they have confirmed that Starliner has crossed the keep bout sphere or the Kos which is an imaginary 200 met sphere centered on the International Space Station that helps flight controllers here on the ground monitor the arrival and departure of visiting Vehicles station Houston Space to ground 2 Starliner has exited the KE out sphere she's exited the key here someone said why don't we see stars and someone else in the in the a reminder this automated breakout sequence was chosen to use starliners forward thrusters which have remained nominal during this flight by the way so yeah these thrusters you're seeing and we heard confirmation that all 12 Burns in this series of breakout burn firings have completed and they were all good Burns Starliner has crossed the KE out sphere so the next milestone for Star liner's departure be Cross or AE yeah really quick this is just a replay of what we saw but the thrusters they were using that we saw you know being used those were thrusters that performed fine on this flight um they have had issues with some of the thrusters that was maybe the biggest problem the biggest concern uh with bringing the astronauts back on this U spacecraft which they decided not to do is whether the thrusters would have problems on the way back but the thrusters they were just using uh that we were seeing them use um those were all ones that had worked the whole flight they were saying as I take it um one of our viewers said why can't we see um the Stars uh now and another one of our viewers said well it's it's the same reason you can't see this this you can't see it on Earth during the day it's that it's the sunlight and pointed out that the sun is um hitting the spaceship so that sounds reasonable to me uh that um it'd be the same reason uh hold on a second but I don't know if that's I don't know if that's true I I don't know if that's true maybe it's a different reason that like when we see it from that angle from that high up we're not seeing the Stars that's a great question I don't know I do not know I'm trying to trying to find you an answer let's see here um right so there's an article from wi that talks about this and what wired says is that um it the art the article is titled why can't Stars be seen in moon and space photos um I'll actually post the link in the chat okay to this article from wired and I'll give you a little summary of what it says but you can read the article but what it says is that I just posted the link the article um on Earth um at night the sky is black obviously and when it's and at night we can see the stars um in the day during the day the sky is bright and not black because of the diffusion of light through the atmosphere but in space there's no atmosphere to spread the light around and the sky will appear black at midday but it's still just as bright it doesn't really I'd have to read this article again completely but I I I just posted the link in the chat I posted the link to the article it says that an astronaut looking at out at the window in midday will see just as much direct sunlight as you would on Earth looking out your apartment Window but the sky will won't won't be blue it'll be black anyways I don't want to get it's an interesting question I'll have to I'll have to read up more on that but um anyways let's talk a little more about what what's coming up so I guess one thing that the article says is just because the sky is black doesn't mean it's not daytime where the astronauts are oh thank you to staxx and Justin Lawrence for your support and Christopher Anderson thank you um and also thanks to um on Twitch paper City gamer and who shot Jr in a moment of lovely and um Kaa and SD and C50 pack and cubat and Wall Street thanks thanks for your support on Twitch so let's just summarize where we're at at the moment so the Starliner is on its way home actually this is from ass press what you can see and and NASA is not live streaming at the moment the NASA live stream is over so NASA NASA's going to live stream later again there's no NASA live stream right now of this um but that's a that's a picture of what we saw earlier where the of of the thrusters firing and then there's a picture of the undocking which we saw before as well um so this Starliner capsule this Starliner capsule it's a it's supposed to bring I'm going to I'm going to take my headphones out I can do that my ear earpods out now I can do this hold on things might pause for a second here so the Starliner capsule has been Boeing has been working on this thing hang on uh Boeing has been working on this Starliner capsule for years and NASA wants it to get done so they can have it to bring astronauts to and from the International Space Station uh they already have the SpaceX crew Dragon uh but they want to use this they want to have two different ways to bring astronauts to and through the space station this thing has been under development for years uh it has gone uh significantly over budget um and this was supposed to be the one crude test flight that if it went well if everything went well then this was supposed to be the last test flight before it was certified good to go to start taking astronauts regular flights to and from the space station but on the flight there were issues with helium leaks and thrusters and NASA wasn't sure why these why why these problems were happening and they tried to figure stuff out as best they could and look into the issues while this craft which had taken two astronauts to the space station was supposed to stay here for about a week but they kept it there for months because NASA was trying to figure out what what caused the issues on the spacecraft are those problems going to happen when or similar problems going to happen when it's coming back and NASA just could not figure out enough to be confident enough to have this spacecraft take home the two astronauts Sunny Williams and Butch Wilmore who it took up so what NASA said is okay we're just going to bring this spacecraft back with nobody on it and the two astronauts are going to wait there uh and another SpaceX crew dragon is is coming in a few weeks I believe and it will have two empty seats on it and it'll stay there until February of 2025 and then the two astronauts from the Starliner will will take the two empty seats on that SpaceX craft and they will fly back down in February in February um and this spacecraft right now is headed home uh it is flying home and it is supposed to land shortly after midnight in New Mexico and we're going to cover that and NASA is going to start streaming their coverage around 10:45 eastern time so what we're going to do is we'll talk a little more now and then we'll take a break and then I'll come back on the a probably around like 10 or 10:15 Eastern and we will cover the landing uh with the NASA live stream a little later on tonight if that if if all of that makes sense um uh our viewer GG mode says I find this GG mode Modi says I find this amazing I remember watching rocket launches in the school library 50 years ago to watching this today yeah and one of our viewers were saying it's incredible we can just see this and see the thing pull away and see the see the thrusters firing it's crazy uh Dolores Wilson says praying all goes up well all goes well wellsh lad says it could burn up if the thrusters don't work yeah hopefully everything goes fine Mr Juan do says is there any concern with the astronauts being up there for so long no in the sense of astronauts have stayed up at the space station for actually longer for around a year so the NASA I've heard press conferences with them they don't have huge concerns about it and they say that the astronauts know when they fly up there on a test flight like this that something could go wrong and they might have to stay up there longer than they initially thought so they it's no serious problems that were aware of with them staying up there for for a lot longer than they were supposed to um let's see here game hold on a moment here I want to take some comments from you guys maybe we'll do one more poll maybe we'll do one more poll what is this here oh uh this is interesting kri potit sent this and I hadn't seen this before look at this from NASA look at what NASA posted I hadn't even seen this um spot Starliner on its way back to Earth after the spacecraft undocks from the space station which it already has it will soar through Earth's Skies before landing in New Mexico if you're on the visibility path and skies are clear look up and you might see it I'll post a link to this in the chat so if you're somewhere down there you might see it thank you Carrie here I'm gonna actually do this uh I got to do this a better way I got to do this a better way here's the visibility path from NASA why hold on you're gonna see it in a second see it in a second so if you're somewhere on that path you might see it Les salavi says I'm down there I'll be looking these are minutes I think yeah this is I think this is Mountain Time so that'd be 11:45 Eastern Time and 11:52 Eastern Time although it might you know I don't know if those times have slightly changed today at all or anything anyways uh so that's in a little bit that's in several hours from now okay let's um oh we're going to do a poll so now that it's in now that it has undocked now that it has undocked okay so it's undocked successfully it's gotten away from the space station successfully and it's on its way home right now that it is undocked uh what what do you what are the chances it gets home without any major issues so poll will Starliner land without any major issues yes or no I just posted it in YouTube I'm going to post it on Twitch right now and we'll see what you guys have to say that's an Associated Press article on the screen right now by the way all right according to our YouTube viewers they seem a little more confident now than they were before according to our YouTube viewers uh 55% of them say it will land without any major issues 45% say no and over on Twitch it's pretty similar 56% say yes and 44% say no on Twitch so there you go 50 now it's 5545 on both it's 5545 on both all right well we'll see what happens uh you can see here AP says after months of turmoil over its safety Boeing's new astronaut capsule has Departed the International Space Station without its crew and is headed back to Earth the two test pilots stayed behind at the space station their home until next year as the capsule docked undocked 260 Mi over China Springs gently pushing it away from the orbiting laboratory the return flight was expected to take 6 hours it's going to land shortly after midnight supposedly with a nighttime touchdown in the New Mexico desert uh the two astronauts on board should have plown Starliner back to Earth in June just a week after launching it but Thruster failures and helium leaks marred their ride to the space station NASA ultimately decided it was too risky to return the duo on the Star Line so the fully automated capsule left with their empty seats and blue space suits along with some old station equipment SpaceX will bring them back in February stretching their original 8-day Mission to more than eight months um and we talked about this before um Boeing's first astronaut flight caps a journey a Boeing spacecraft Journey filled with delays and set packs after the after the space shuttles retired more than a decade ago NASA hired both Boeing and SpaceX for orbital taxi service Boeing ran into so many problems on its first test flight with no on aboard in 2019 that it had to repeat it the 2022 doover uncovered even more flaws and the repair Bill topped $1 billion those were the two flights before this one this is the third test flight um what meanwhile SpaceX is going to be doing its 10th uh flight taking astronauts to and from the dragon the space station uh later this month uh as veteran astronauts and retired Navy Navy captains Wilmore and Williams anticipated hurdles on the flight on the test flight they have kept busy in space helping with repairs and experiments the two are now fulltime station crew members along with the seven others on board here's something a little about the thrusters and the helium failings uh even before the Starliner launched on June 5th star liner's 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 a pause as to whether more malfunctions might hamper the capsules descend from orbit being uh Boeing conducted numerous Thruster tests in in space and on the ground over the summer and Boeing was convinced the spacecraft could safely bring the astronauts home but NASA disagreed and opted for SpaceX instead uh flight controllers planned more test firings of the capsule thrusters following undocking Engineers suspect that the more the thrusters are fired the hotter they become causing detective seals to swell and obstruct the flow of propellant wow they won't be able to examine any of the parts the section holding the thrusters will be ditched just before re-entry so I guess they're going to try to do some testing of the capsule before re-entry to help them figure out what went wrong because the section holding the thrusters will be ditched just before re-entry so they're not going to be able to look at that section on Earth in person uh National NASA's commercial crew program manager Steve S Stitch says the space agency remains committed to having two competing us companies transporting astronauts there's this question is it possible that that NASA would ultimately say you know or or Boeing would say I don't know if they if it's up to Boeing can they say it but you know could it end up that that Starliner is just never finished and never ever get certified to bring astronauts back and forth to the space station I don't know wow read a few more comments here from you guys so again um we're gonna we're going to come back on the year a little later tonight probably around 10 Eastern Time to cover the landing and we're going to have a whole other live stream from NASA NASA's going to be live streaming the landing and we're going to cover that make sure you turn the notifications on for the channel we cover all kinds of live breaking news here I can't tell you in advance for a lot of these things when we're coming on because I don't know when big breaking news is going to happen I mean I knew this was going to happen but generally speaking uh but we have a notification system and um and uh it's free you you sign up once and you get notified every time we go live works really well we do it through Discord the mods will post the link to the notifications in 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families but I'm also guessing that part of them is not upset that they're like stuck in space and I agree you only get to many times to go to space in your life and they are astronauts so I'm sure part of them likes loves being in space uh but again I'm sure they miss their families greatly as well you know that's a long time to be away especially when you didn't anticipate it thanks to our new member Brian Tampa too uh Libra moon says they're not going to be home for the holidays by the way this is a NASA photo from the NASA live shot there so we're going to be doing a whole other stream tonight Dan Clark says get the popcorn Carrie MC aliens says according to their I didn't see this report myself krie says according to their families the astronauts are happy to have extra time to stay up there oh Estella Manuel says we will be heading to an area where we can set up and try to see it I guess figures cross we can see it hey Estella Manuel I hope you guys end up seeing it uh Matthew Hopkins says 'I wonder how the astronauts are being affected physically and mentally by being in space for that long Brian says there are thousands upon thousands of Boeing planes that fly every day Boeing is safe trust me now the Boeing space Boeing space is a different uh Division I believe than Boe uh air aircraft according to Wikipedia uh yeah there's three divisions Boeing commercial airplanes Boeing defense Bas and security and Boeing Global Services thanks Dax for your support as well thank you so remember we are going to be watching the Landing we're going to be watching The Landing tonight tonight and I'm planning on coming back on the year around [Music] um around like 10 or 10:15 because I think NASA's resuming their live stream at 1050 hang on a moment I'm just gonna try to get you I'm gonna let me see if I can get you any updates here on on on a couple things give me a second here let me just check a couple things here but so far everything's gone fine with the undocking yeah see look uh NASA tune back in at 10:50 p.m as live coverage continues we'll come on the air before then uh for Boeing spaces Starliner return to Earth Earth Landing targeted for around midnight eastern time at the White Sands space Harbor New Mexico Landing site just after midnight Eric berer who is a space report a space reporter at RS Technica space editor says that the next major Milestone will be a deorbit burn to inter Earth's atmosphere at 11:17 p.m. eastern time so we'll be watching that later oh they posted the video too I'm going to repost this uh we were watching this before um International Space Station we watched this a couple times the uncrewed Boeing Starliner spacecraft has Departed the space station undocking from the harmony modules forward port at 6:04 p.m. Eastern today we watched that earlier a couple times there you go oh also you know speaking of space I'm planning on doing coverage of the Polaris Dawn Mission uh which is a upcoming space X mission where a private crew of four people is going to go up there and attempt the first private space walk ever uh so now I don't believe that got delayed they were originally supposed to launch before now but I don't know if they have picked an exact date I I that's supposed to be soon I don't believe at the moment CU I as of last night there was not an exact time I think they were waiting for some weather to to clear um so I I have not seen an exact announcement yet of when that's supposed to happen but the crew is supposed to launch soon and then like roughly two days after they launch they're going to do the a private space walk basically there's and there's no air loock they're basically going to open up the ship to space and they're going to do I think some sort of 45h hour gradual I don't know if it's a 45 hour depressurization thing they do but um it takes two days from like after the launch for them to do that private spacewalk thing anyways um I'm hoping to cover that so I'll keep an eye out for that oh thank you to Maine by the way I appreciate it Maine thank you uh let's see here hang on one moment so so I'm not aware you know we saw it leave the space station it seemed to be going fine so I'll let you I mean I anticipate coming back on the around like 10 or so where is this thing where is this thing yeah I'll definitely keep you I'll definitely keep you updated on the Polaris Dawn thing oh yeah no the the yeah the undocking already happened so we're coming back on the air for the landing it's heading home it's heading home now all I'll take a few last comments and then we're going to take a break and then we're going to come back on later tonight okay that's what we're going to do oh hold on a second here oh that so in terms of closing the hatch I think they said the hatch closes around like 7:40 p.m. eastern time but that we're not going to have a live shot of that I don't know why they do it at that time all right so what I'm going to do now is I am going to uh hang on here by the way our viewers Stanton Readington says I don't have a good feeling about this well hopefully it goes fine we'll have to see we'll have to see our viewers were split about whether it would land safely so we'll just have to see we're going to we're going to watch and see later and see what happens okay um all right so what we're going to do is it is now 710 p.m. I'm going to wrap up the stream I'm going to take a little break and we're going to do another stream I I think I'll probably come on around 10 eastern time for our live coverage of the landing the landing and we're supposed to have live footage of the landing there's supposed to I believe be a news conference after the landing so a bunch of coverage to come on this The Landing in New Mexico landing on land with uh where it lands on like these airbags so that is coming up we're gonna be oh I'm sorry you know what happened I this headline is off see how the headline says uncrewed Boeing Starliner heading back 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