Boeing Starliner Returns To Earth Without Sunita Williams And Butch Wilmore, Lands In New Mexico After 6-Hour Flight
Boeing Starliner Returns To Earth Without Sunita Williams And Butch Wilmore, Lands In New Mexico After 6-Hour Flight
Boeing Co.'s (NYSE:BA) troubled space capsule, Starliner, has returned to Earth without any crew after a test flight fraught with technical issues and delays.
波音公司（紐交所：BA）備受技術問題和延誤困擾的太空艙Starliner在一次充滿技術問題和延誤的測試飛行後無人機返回地球。
What Happened: The Starliner departed the International Space Station at 6:04 p.m. Friday New York time and landed in White Sands, New Mexico, after a six-hour flight.
事件經過：Starliner於週五紐約時間下午6:04從國際空間站起飛，並在經過六小時飛行後在新墨西哥州白沙着陸。
The mission has garnered global attention due to numerous technical problems that led NASA to extend the stays of astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams.
由於衆多技術問題導致NASA不得不延長宇航員巴里「布奇」·威爾莫和Sunita「Suni」 Williams的停留時間，這次任務引起了全球的關注。
Originally scheduled to return in the Starliner, Williams and Wilmore will now remain on the ISS until early 2025, when a SpaceX craft will bring them back. NASA deemed it too risky for astronauts to return in the Boeing vehicle due to ongoing thruster issues.
最初計劃Starliner返回的Williams和Wilmore現在將留在國際空間站直到2025年初，屆時spacex的飛船將帶他們回來。NASA認爲由於持續的推力器問題，讓宇航員乘坐波音飛船返回過於危險。
NASA officials monitored the thrusters' performance during the return to evaluate their capability.
NASA官員在返回過程中監控推進器的性能以評估其能力。
Despite the concerns, NASA's Steve Stich expressed confidence in the vehicle during a press conference. However, the root cause of the issues remains unclear, and NASA's future plans for Starliner are still undecided.
儘管存在擔憂，NASA的Steve Stich在新聞發佈會上表示對該飛行器的信心。然而，問題的根本原因仍不清楚，NASA對Starliner的未來計劃仍未決定。
Why It Matters: The return of Boeing's Starliner without crew underscores a series of setbacks for the aerospace giant. On Sept. 4, the crew aboard the ISS prepared the Starliner for its uncrewed journey back to Earth.
爲什麼重要：波音Starliner無人返回強調了這家航空巨頭一系列挫折。9月4日，ISS上的機組人員爲Starliner準備了它的無人返程任務。
Earlier, on Sept. 2, astronaut Wilmore reported hearing strange sonar-like sounds from a speaker inside the Starliner, baffling NASA officials in Houston.
此前，9月2日，宇航員威爾莫報告稱在Starliner內部揚聲器傳來奇怪的聲音，讓休斯頓的NASA官員感到困惑。
Due to these ongoing issues, NASA had to revamp its SpaceX Crew-9 lineup on Aug. 30 to make room for the astronauts stranded at the ISS. Only two astronauts will launch on NASA's upcoming SpaceX Crew-9 mission instead of four.
由於這些持續問題，NASA不得不在8月30日改組其spacex Crew-9陣容，以騰出空間讓滯留在國際空間站的宇航員。只有兩名宇航員將在NASA即將進行的spacex Crew-9任務中發射，而不是四名。
Adding to the tension, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took another dig at Boeing, highlighting the company's failure to return astronauts on the Starliner.
加劇緊張局勢的是，spacex首席執行官埃隆·馬斯克再次批評波音，強調了該公司未能讓星際飛船返回宇航員的失敗。
- Boeing's Former CEO Dennis Muilenburg Said In 2017 His Company Will Beat Elon Musk To Mars. 7 Years Later, It Has Been Forced To Abandon NASA Astronauts At ISS, Who Will Now Be Rescued By SpaceX
- 波音的前首席執行官丹尼斯·穆倫伯格在2017年表示，他的公司將在7年後擊敗elon musk到達火星。7年後，它被迫放棄了在國際空間站的NASA宇航員，現在它們將由spacex解救。
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