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（纽交所：BA）备受技术问题和延误困扰的太空舱Starliner在一次充满技术问题和延误的测试飞行后无人机返回地球。
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.
事件经过：Starliner于周五纽约时间下午6:04从国际空间站起飞，并在经过六小时飞行后在新墨西哥州白沙着陆。
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.
由于众多技术问题导致NASA不得不延长宇航员巴里“布奇”·威尔莫和Sunita“Suni” Williams的停留时间，这次任务引起了全球的关注。
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.
最初计划Starliner返回的Williams和Wilmore现在将留在国际空间站直到2025年初，届时spacex的飞船将带他们回来。NASA认为由于持续的推力器问题，让宇航员乘坐波音飞船返回过于危险。
NASA officials monitored the thrusters' performance during the return to evaluate their capability.
NASA官员在返回过程中监控推进器的性能以评估其能力。
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.
尽管存在担忧，NASA的Steve Stich在新闻发布会上表示对该飞行器的信心。然而，问题的根本原因仍不清楚，NASA对Starliner的未来计划仍未决定。
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.
为什么重要：波音Starliner无人返回强调了这家航空巨头一系列挫折。9月4日，ISS上的机组人员为Starliner准备了它的无人返程任务。
Earlier, on Sept. 2, astronaut Wilmore reported hearing strange sonar-like sounds from a speaker inside the Starliner, baffling NASA officials in Houston.
此前，9月2日，宇航员威尔莫报告称在Starliner内部扬声器传来奇怪的声音，让休斯顿的NASA官员感到困惑。
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.
由于这些持续问题，NASA不得不在8月30日改组其spacex Crew-9阵容，以腾出空间让滞留在国际空间站的宇航员。只有两名宇航员将在NASA即将进行的spacex Crew-9任务中发射，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.
加剧紧张局势的是，spacex首席执行官埃隆·马斯克再次批评波音，强调了该公司未能让星际飞船返回宇航员的失败。
- 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
- 2017年，波音前CEO丹尼斯·穆伦伯格表示，他的公司将在7年内打败埃隆·马斯克前往火星。但是7年后，波音被迫放弃了在国际空间站上的NASA宇航员，他们现在将由spacex进行救援。
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