{"id":139924,"date":"2022-05-28T18:02:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T23:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/boeings-starliner-lands-in-the-desert-and-brings-nasa-one-step-closer-to-a-key-strategic-goal"},"modified":"2022-05-28T18:02:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T23:02:20","slug":"boeings-starliner-lands-in-the-desert-and-brings-nasa-one-step-closer-to-a-key-strategic-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/boeings-starliner-lands-in-the-desert-and-brings-nasa-one-step-closer-to-a-key-strategic-goal","title":{"rendered":"Boeing\u2019s Starliner lands in the desert \u2014 and brings NASA one step closer to a key strategic goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b38sm4h2iWA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Starliner\u2019s path to success has been turbulent.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>This flight has been a long time coming. It brings NASA one step closer to a goal it\u2019s had for some years now: To rely on multiple private space companies to transport astronauts and supplies between the ground and the ISS. But Starliner\u2019s path has been turbulent. For NASA, even if the ascent was a success, it was still well behind schedule.<\/p>\n<p>This mission, evocatively named Orbital Flight Test 2 (OFT-2), launched on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral on May 19 and arrived at the ISS on May 21. The capsule received a warm welcome from the astronauts currently aboard the station: three Russians, three Americans, and Italian ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti.<\/p>\n<p>Over a decade ago as the venerable Space Shuttles entered retirement, NASA found itself without a mode of transport to the ISS. To remedy this, NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-us-hitches-its-final-ride-to-space-from-russia-for-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">bought its astronauts<\/a> seats aboard Russian Soyuz flights \u2014 a time that seems so quaint today. Even as the agency found its hands empty, however, they were seeking aerospace companies to fill the void.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starliner\u2019s path to success has been turbulent. This flight has been a long time coming. It brings NASA one step closer to a goal it\u2019s had for some years now: To rely on multiple private space companies to transport astronauts and supplies between the ground and the ISS. But Starliner\u2019s path has been turbulent. For [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}