NASA orders more tests on Starliner, but says crew isn’t stranded in space (arstechnica.com)

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NASA and Boeing officials pushed back Friday on headlines that the commercial Starliner crew capsule is stranded at the International Space Station but said they need more time to analyze data before formally clearing the spacecraft for undocking and reentry.

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[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 weeks ago

There are 16 thrusters on the service module and they only need like 4. One is malfunction. They're trying to diagnose the problem to fix it for next time since the service module burns up on reentry.

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