Boeing Starliner Crewed Flight Test Spacecraft Lands Without Crew

four orbal maneuvering and attitude control thrusters on Starliner service module are now firing slowing Starliner down as a capsule against its Journey back to Earth this will take about 59 seconds to complete still looking good and we did see the uh durber burn cut off successfully teams here on the ground reporting a good burn separation and the service module has just jettisoned separated and is now falling away it will burn up during re-entry over a remote part of the Pacific Ocean and Starliner will continue on its path to New Mexico where the landing and Recovery team is waiting for Touchdown Starliner is now angling itself and its heat shield for re-entry this uh is a live view from the International Space Station where we're able to get a view of uh Starliner track as it comes in all right and that action you're seeing on your screen forward heat sheld and drugs out really interesting view of this uh coming down from the WB 57 see those two drug parachutes uh now deployed they slow the uh vehicle down initially until it gets to a uh a safe uh speed for the enormous main parachutes to to follow about four minutes to go until touchdown for the landing airbags to deploy and there's the main parachutes there on your screen we see three out currently reefing and the teams at the uh Landing uh recovery teams report that they heard uh booms as those came out three good Mains fully open there just a little over 2 minutes until the expected Landing time and we heard the rotational handle has been released so you can see that uh tilt evened out next up is the back heat shield jettison and there it goes that again makes way for the airbag inflation nice to see that you can see the airbags deploying there on your screen those airbags are filled with nitrogen as they guide Starliner safely back to the desert floor touchdown Starliner is back on Earth that Landing coming at 11:01 and 35 seconds Central Time 10:01 and 31 seconds mountain time at wh sand space armor at the US Army's Missile Range in New Mexico our landing and Recovery teams will now wait for clearance before making their way to the spacecraft

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