NASA’s Starliner astronauts didn’t feel let down by Boeing
Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who were stranded in space for nearly a week due to technical issues with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, said that being stuck in space is “just part of the job”. The astronauts were supposed to return to Earth with Boeing’s Starliner, but they weren’t sent back. They made a smooth landing in New Mexico last week.
There are conversations about the moment
Boeing’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, which is slated to fly astronauts to the International Space Station, will undergo extensive tests at NASA’s White New Mexico Test Facility this week. NASA said it will conduct simulations of dockings, launches, and landing burns to see if they can duplicate the problems. Starliner had to be diverted to a launchpad on May 6 due to a helium leak.
China sent the first-ever samples from the far side of the Moon back to Earth
China’s Chang’e-6 spacecraft has landed on the Moon’s far side, where soil samples were extracted from the surface and taken back to Earth. The samples have been sent back to Earth as part of China’s “first-of-its-kind effort” to collect lunar samples. Chang’e-6 will be launched to Moon’s south pole in the first half of next year.