Boeing Starliner Return: Sunita Williams And Butch Wilmore Prepare Spacecraft For Uncrewed Journey Back To Earth
Boeing Starliner Return: Sunita Williams And Butch Wilmore Prepare Spacecraft For Uncrewed Journey Back To Earth
Crew-8 will depart from the station later this month. The crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday prepared Boeing Co.'s (NYSE:BA) Starliner spacecraft for its uncrewed departure later this week, NASA said on Tuesday.
国际空间站的机组人员在星期二为波音公司（NYSE:BA）的Starliner宇宙飞船做好了无人值守起飞的准备，美国国家航空航天局在星期二表示。
What Happened: Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who went to space via Starliner, reconfigured the spacecraft's seats for an uncrewed landing and packed cargo inside it meant to reach back Earth, the agency said.
据机构消息，乘坐Starliner飞船前往太空的Sunita Williams和Butch Wilmore重新配置了飞船的座椅，为无人着陆做好准备，并将货物装在飞船内，打算带回地球。
Two Crew-8 mission members also invited Williams and Wilmore into the Dragon spacecraft docked to the station and took them through the spacecraft systems and crew configuration as they are slated to return in February together with two Crew-9 members in another Dragon spacecraft.
第8组成员还邀请了Williams和Wilmore进入与站对接的Dragon飞船，并向他们介绍了飞船系统和机组配置。因为他们将与第9组成员一同于2月份乘坐另一艘Dragon飞船返回。
Crew-8 will depart from the station later this month.
第8组将于本月晚些时候从空间站出发。
Why It Matters: Last month, NASA announced that it would return Williams and Wilmore via a SpaceX vehicle in February.
为什么它很重要：上个月，美国国家航空航天局宣布将于2月份通过SpaceX的飞行器将Williams和Wilmore送回。
The two astronauts launched into space on June 5 aboard Starliner. Though the two were supposed to return in about eight days, technical issues identified with the spacecraft while docking delayed the return journey, and the agency subsequently decided to scrap bringing the astronauts back on the Boeing spacecraft altogether.
这两位宇航员于6月5日乘坐Starliner飞船进入太空。虽然他们原计划在约八天内返回，但是在对接时发现的飞船技术问题导致返航延迟，机构随后决定放弃让这两位宇航员搭乘波音飞船返回。
The two will now return with Crew-9 astronauts in February. Crew 9 mission will launch to the space station no earlier than Sept. 24 with just two astronauts, instead of four as previously planned, to make space for Williams and Wilson on the return journey.
现在，他们将在2月份与第9组宇航员一同返回。第9组任务计划最早于9月24日发射，仅有两位宇航员，而不是之前计划的四位，为了为Williams和Wilson在返航途中腾出空间。
The Starliner is now slated to undock from the space station on Sept. 6 and land at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico at about 12:03 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 7.
Starliner计划于9月6日从空间站解除航天器，并于9月7日凌晨12点03分降落在新墨西哥州的白沙太空港。