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.
國際空間站的機組人員在星期二爲波音公司（NYSE:BA）的Starliner宇宙飛船做好了無人值守起飛的準備，美國國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.
據機構消息，乘坐Starliner飛船前往太空的Sunita Williams和Butch Wilmore重新配置了飛船的座椅，爲無人着陸做好準備，並將貨物裝在飛船內，打算帶回地球。
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組成員還邀請了Williams和Wilmore進入與站對接的Dragon飛船，並向他們介紹了飛船系統和機組配置。因爲他們將與第9組成員一同於2月份乘坐另一艘Dragon飛船返回。
Crew-8 will depart from the station later this month.
第8組將於本月晚些時候從空間站出發。
Why It Matters: Last month, NASA announced that it would return Williams and Wilmore via a SpaceX vehicle in February.
爲什麼它很重要：上個月，美國國家航空航天局宣佈將於2月份通過SpaceX的飛行器將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.
這兩位宇航員於6月5日乘坐Starliner飛船進入太空。雖然他們原計劃在約八天內返回，但是在對接時發現的飛船技術問題導致返航延遲，機構隨後決定放棄讓這兩位宇航員搭乘波音飛船返回。
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.
現在，他們將在2月份與第9組宇航員一同返回。第9組任務計劃最早於9月24日發射，僅有兩位宇航員，而不是之前計劃的四位，爲了爲Williams和Wilson在返航途中騰出空間。
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計劃於9月6日從空間站解除航天器，並於9月7日凌晨12點03分降落在新墨西哥州的白沙太空港。