Boeing Starliner Returns To Earth Without Sunita Williams And Butch Wilmore, Lands In New Mexico After 6-Hour Flight
Boeing Starliner Returns To Earth Without Sunita Williams And Butch Wilmore, Lands In New Mexico After 6-Hour Flight
Originally scheduled to return in the Starliner, Williams and Wilmore will now remain on the ISS until early 2025, when a Boeing Co.'s (NYSE:BA) troubled space capsule, Starliner, has returned to Earth without any crew after a test flight fraught with technical issues and delays.
波音公司。”s（紐約證券交易所代碼：BA）陷入困境的太空艙Starliner在一次充滿技術問題和延誤的試飛後已返回地球，沒有任何機組人員。
What Happened: The Starliner departed the International Space Station at 6:04 p.m. Friday New York time and landed in White Sands, New Mexico, after a six-hour flight.
發生了什麼：Starliner於紐約時間週五下午 6:04 離開國際空間站，經過六個小時的飛行，降落在新墨西哥州的白沙。
The mission has garnered global attention due to numerous technical problems that led NASA to extend the stays of astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams.
由於許多技術問題，該任務引起了全球關注，這些問題導致美國宇航局延長了宇航員巴里· 「布奇」 ·威爾摩和蘇尼塔· 「蘇尼」 ·威廉姆斯的停留時間。
Originally scheduled to return in the Starliner, Williams and Wilmore will now remain on the ISS until early 2025, when a SpaceX craft will bring them back. NASA deemed it too risky for astronauts to return in the Boeing vehicle due to ongoing thruster issues.
威廉姆斯和威爾摩原定乘坐星際客機返回，現在將留在國際空間站直到2025年初，屆時SpaceX飛船將他們帶回國際空間站。美國宇航局認爲，由於持續的推進器問題，宇航員乘坐波音飛行器返回的風險太大。
NASA officials monitored the thrusters' performance during the return to evaluate their capability.
美國宇航局官員監測了推進器返回期間的性能，以評估其能力。
Despite the concerns, NASA's Steve Stich expressed confidence in the vehicle during a press conference. However, the root cause of the issues remains unclear, and NASA's future plans for Starliner are still undecided.
儘管存在擔憂，但美國宇航局的史蒂夫·斯蒂奇在新聞發佈會上表達了對這輛車的信心。但是，問題的根本原因尚不清楚，美國宇航局對Starliner的未來計劃仍未確定。
Why It Matters: The return of Boeing's Starliner without crew underscores a series of setbacks for the aerospace giant. On Sept. 4, the crew aboard the ISS prepared the Starliner for its uncrewed journey back to Earth.
爲何重要：沒有機組人員的波音Starliner的回歸凸顯了這家航空巨頭面臨的一系列挫折。9月4日，國際空間站上的機組人員爲Starliner的無人返回地球的旅程做好了準備。
Earlier, on Sept. 2, astronaut Wilmore reported hearing strange sonar-like sounds from a speaker inside the Starliner, baffling NASA officials in Houston.
早些時候，9月2日，宇航員威爾摩報告說，Starliner內的揚聲器聽到了類似聲納的奇怪聲音，這讓休斯敦的美國宇航局官員感到困惑。
Due to these ongoing issues, NASA had to revamp its SpaceX Crew-9 lineup on Aug. 30 to make room for the astronauts stranded at the ISS. Only two astronauts will launch on NASA's upcoming SpaceX Crew-9 mission instead of four.
由於這些持續存在的問題，美國宇航局不得不在8月30日改造其SpaceX Crew-9陣容，以便爲滯留在國際空間站的宇航員騰出空間。只有兩名宇航員將發射執行美國宇航局即將執行的SpaceX Crew-9任務，而不是四名。
Adding to the tension, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took another dig at Boeing, highlighting the company's failure to return astronauts on the Starliner.
加劇緊張局勢的是，SpaceX首席執行官埃隆·馬斯克再次對波音進行了深入研究，強調該公司未能將宇航員送回星際客機。
- Boeing's Former CEO Dennis Muilenburg Said In 2017 His Company Will Beat Elon Musk To Mars. 7 Years Later, It Has Been Forced To Abandon NASA Astronauts At ISS, Who Will Now Be Rescued By SpaceX
- 波音前首席執行官丹尼斯·穆倫堡在2017年表示，他的公司將在火星上擊敗埃隆·馬斯克。7年後，它被迫在國際空間站拋棄美國宇航局宇航員，他們現在將被SpaceX救出
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