In this long exposure photo, the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the Boeing Starliner crew capsule lifts off on an orbital flight test to the International Space Station from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force station, Friday, Dec. 20, 2019, in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
After seeing this first test flight cut short and the space station docking canceled because of an improperly set clock on the capsule, Boeing employees were relieved to get the Starliner back . The capsule’s first trip to space began with a smooth rocket ride from Cape Canaveral on Friday. But barely a half hour into the flight, it failed to fire its thrusters to give chase to the space station and ended up in the wrong orbit.
Boeing is still trying to figure out how the timing error occurred. The mission lasted nearly 50 hours and included 33 orbits around the Earth. If a launch abort test goes well next month, SpaceX could start launching NASA astronauts by spring and end a nearly nine-year gap in flying people from Cape Canaveral.
Rock_Rogers Be like they picked up an alien and delivered it to area 51
greta
Boeing...
Get yer shit together Boeing! 🤣🤣🤣
So Ben Affleck and Bruce Willis are still stranded in space and a rag-tag group of young rocket hobbyists is their only hope.
At least Boeing is pro-choice.
It was supposed to separate...
greta 2020 can’t come fast enough for our friends at Boeing
Come to West Texas & see how it’s done by blueorigin
Let’s see how many feel good ads Boeing will saturate Sunday talk shows with...
Dummy couldn't even fly right.
So ... glass half full.
Boeing’s not doing well lately!!!
Elon - its your turn!
Oh boy. Perhaps we should give NASA more money to avoid glitches like this one!?
Bet that test dummy is saying, 'Never again with Boeing'!
was is space cadet bone spurs?
Just let elonmusk handle this. He knows better than to play in New Mexico. You know. roswell
That's not good !
Couldn’t use “Rosie the rocketeer” and “aborted” flight in the same title.
Capsule 737-MAX 800, most probably.
Space Force?
“Test Dummy”
It can happen. Let's go ahead
Boeing Starliner
Apollo MAX