🙌 Touchdown,
#Starliner!
Boeing’s uncrewed spacecraft touched down May 25 at 6:49 p.m. EDT (22:49 UTC) at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico. The capsule’s return to Earth wrapped up a six-day trip to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of Orbital Flight Test-2, a flight test to help certify Boeing’s crew transportation system for regular flights with astronauts to and from the space station.
Starliner launched to the space station on Thursday, May 19 aboard a ULALaunch Atlas V rocket, and docked to the orbiting laboratory on Friday, May 20. The spacecraft returned home with more than 600 pounds (272 kilograms) of cargo, including Nitrogen Oxygen Recharge System reusable tanks that provide breathable air to station crew members. The tanks will be refurbished on Earth and sent back to the station on a future flight. Although the mission was uncrewed, there was one passenger strapped into the commander’s seat: Rosie the Rocketeer. An anthropomorphic test device weighing...