LIVE! Boeing Starliner Undock & Return

e e station houst s space to ground 2 for TC and followup well good afternoon everyone and welcome here to the Launchpad and you are looking at a live view from the International Space Station where Starliner has been docked for 93 days 4 hours and 11 minutes and it will only be on station for another 3 hours if everything goes to plan as the Boeing Starliner is ready to leave the International Space Station crews are on board station are preparing for undocking set to occur just over 3 hours from now we will be staying live through all of Starliner return to Earth here tonight we have a deorbit burn scheduled for 8 hours 13 minutes from now if undocking and departure of the ISS area is successful with touchdown targeting right at the beginning of a new day 8 hours 56 minutes minutes from now we'll be bringing you live updates as we follow the location of the International Space Station and Starliner over the next 9 or so hours as we attempt to see if Boeing Starliner could come home uh it is leaving its crew on board that crew now becoming part of expedition beginning a la duration stay on the International Space Station set to stay on board until February as where they will come home as part of half of crew nine now this interesting thing with today Starliner is leaving which means we will officially have more astronauts than seats on the International Space Station for safe uh safe procedures or for emergency evacuation NASA has put a procedure in place with spacex's uh support and planning uh to be able to have Bush and sunny take refuge in the crew capsule which you can see there on your screen should they need to uh at any point until the crew n Dragon comes up where they will have two to designated suits if for any reason they need to get into The Crew 8 capsule and depart the space station they will be doing so unpressurized not in a space suit uh and uh they will be evacuating the station should they have to in that sense but we of course are uh hoping that doesn't happen and all eyes are on Starliner here today with undocking scheduled just 3 hours from now if you haven't yet take a moment engage that like button share out the stream this has been a big story we've been following for 93 days days this was a 8-day mission 93 days ago uh we all thought it could be extended you know 10 12 days uh none of us thought it would be a third of a a quarter of a year uh but uh here we are and we're excited to see Starliner come home and have the Boeing Crews uh start their investigation onto everything that happened and we'll have to wait and see the next time we see Starliner fly it may be a bit of time we're going to be answering your guys's comments and questions you can send those in all night long in the the chat by taking us at the Launchpad and I'll work on answering those live sometimes in the chat sometimes on commentary as we bring updates we are listening into the live station to ground Communications Loops as well so anything that we are hearing uh just as we were getting ready to go live here uh a couple of hours earlier than we originally planned uh station called down asking uh about their dealing with some trash uh and they're uh obviously moving some trash somewhere uh and they were said what type of flavor of trash uh are we allowed to use in this and station uh ground took a minute uh came back to them and said any regular trash is just fine uh so it's uh always fun to hear uh station to ground communication so we've got those patched in these are live views from on board station Starliner is hiding behind that silver module of the station but it is still there as undocking is 2 hours 57 minutes from now as we get started though take a moment hit the like button let us know in the chat where you're watching from we want to hear from you we also have a poll running in the chat how do you think the Starliner return is going to go do you think we're going to see an undocking scrub or failure we kind of merge those two together this Starliner going to get stuck in orbit is it going to leave the ISS but is something else going to happen is it going to re have a re-entry failure or do you think star lier will have a successful Landing of course that's one we're hoping for glad to see 43% of you uh want to see that too but interestingly enough 36% think Starliner is unsafe for crew to come home will actually have a re-entry failure really interesting to see lots of people tuning in from all over the world we're glad to have you we got Michael in Bermuda Keith is in Ottawa Ontario Canada love Ottawa Josh is in New Hampshire Carl says a big hi from Greenland great to see you B dog is from Bloomington I believe it's Illinois and we got people tuning in debutots in Newport UK Master sauce is in Ottawa as well we got Patty in Massachusetts the moonman is in Michigan we got Deborah in North Carolina Chaz is in Birmingham UK Phil is in Traverse City David is in Northern Ireland we got uh rich in the UK Jamie's in England for a little help in Columbus please listening into that station to ground Communications always amazing to hear from the orbiting laboratory on to and Janette thanks for calling back we would like to get a Little Help from you to perform a reboot of a laptop which is uh uh showing Frozen from ground if you're ready to copy I give you the details okay I'm in the Columbus which um laptop is it the laptop is the icol this is locating the starboard and cone on the after section I recommend to First have a quick check on the L cable connection if uh uh there is no change from ground that we can verify afterwards you should please perform the reboot of the laptop okay I'm by the laptop um stand by M station on two it munic is back with you too please go ahead okay so when I came over there were no lights on the uh on the ethernet cable now I see the Amber and green lights flashing as a normal should I put some cap tape over it to keep it um connected and Janette also from ground we can actually see now a good connection so apparently uh that uh solved the issue uh give us a few more seconds to verify that everything is green on our end okay great I'm in the columus taking pictures and I'll be um took a quick pause there to listen into the station of ground communication sounds like they're getting ready to re boot a laptop on board uh not all of this we're going to hear is going to relate to the Boeing starliners undocking as many other things are happening as it is the day rotation on station lots of people that were tuning in from around the world we'll do a few more shoutouts here we got dancer in berl Germany we got Chaz of Birmingham UK verica is in Norway we got Hyde in uh French maybe Canada Jason's in Cornwall UK we got zolan in Hungary welcome Funda is in Maine PS in Portland Oregon we got Athena and lacing Washington Lacy Washington Peters in Denmark I see Mark in Tennessee fun is in UK we got Caitlyn in Chicago socials in Sweden Stefon 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us we are 2 hours 49 minutes and Counting from the expected time of undock this is the time that NASA has confirmed they are targeting undocking from the International Space Station we're 8 hours 2 minutes from deorbit Burn of Starliner if everything goes well from the with the departure and we are 8 hours 45 minutes from Starliner touching Downs in White Sands New Mexico uh at the recovery zone Starliner lands on land uh and uh they are all getting ready down on site for that Starliner in space 93 days 4 hours take a couple minutes off cuz it launched 15 minutes since it arrived in space uh 8-day mission extended to over 93 ready to come home but without her crew and we're going to bring you the latest updates over the next uh nine hours as we watch Starliner attempt to come home if you haven't yet hit the like button uh and send in your questions you can keep sending those in in the chat by taking us at the Launchpad and we will work on answering those uh as we continue through today's broadcast but if you do that tag that's going to help us spot it uh in the chat and we'll work on answering those but stay with us we're going to listen into space uh space to ground the communication loop from the space station and I'll be back with another update shortly stay with us right here on the launch pad Network e for e e e e e two for um St with you on two TC I'm in that um Step I think I think it's 105 or 106 I can't remember anyway I'm putting stuff back in the corridor so um there's a 4.0 5013 it's labeled NG 21 food anyway um when I do the bar scanner it says um that it belongs in the location where I just put the 10.0 so um can you guys tell me where that ought to go hey T we're checking uh while we're looking into that I've got two other items for you if you're ready to copy you test one1 hey copy but1 give me some history on that bag um and ISO probably knows this uh as we speak but it I think that B that Bob 4.0 bag U is in the corridor um because there was this Shuffle that um Butch did during a cargo transfer activity he had where um that one came out was supposed to go in server to but there was already food uh 4.0 there so he left it in the corridor is my understanding okay thanks TC yeah that sounds familiar to us ISO is just going to double check uh some of his documentation to confirm that's expected and the two items I have for you okay I'm now ready copy yeah so the two items I had for you first um when you were using the common trash to fill the nooks and crannies earlier um whenever you're done with the cargo Ops if you could give us a percent of a jsv you think that you used of common trash to fill those mix and crannies that would be really helpful I put it in the crew note and stone note but it was the equivalent of um about five bags I I emptied the jsv I put the number and still track of that empty jsv and it was roughly five um trash bag liners full of dry trash that's about what it was and then the foam trash the dense foam was about it took about 55 to 60% of the 10.0 okay TC that's perfect that's exactly what ISO needed uh sorry that we didn't see your notes before he asked you the question no problem was that all number one or is there another one second item for you unrelated to stowage um Pluto would like to come on board to your SSC to do some additional troubleshooting do you have a 2hour window that you could go hands off and it could be while you're sleeping now is probably yeah I would prefer this while wor sing because right now is a really bad time um but um Can Pluto answer the question of what happened last night or does Pluto was my words in the DPC this morning clear yeah NTC your words were great uh it it's very clear we we understand unfortunately we just need to come back on board and try again okay um so if if what what I described is clear then um I would say when I to come on board while I'm sleeping is good um except tell me like I'm a six-year-old what what state I need to leave my SSC in like just just tell me like I'm a six-year-old probably a six-year-old probably knows better about these things that I do but you know what I mean DC I'm getting those words for you stand by one for e e e e on T for cargo transfer with you on to TC I make a Wag that that took me an hour and a half more than um I mean I think total I spent close to three hours still like three hours two and a half hours and that was including that step 102 um which uh all told that probably took as much time as putting the um foam in there just clearing out starboard 4 and um getting the straps out of the way in order to put it there and then have straps to strap it so I'm just for whoever's keeping count of cargo transfer hours I just wanted to um uh report that got it TC thank you so much yeah it is very important that you guys report the the actual hour spent so we're taking that back and I have an answer for you on the food ctbs if you're ready to copy hope what I'm copying is that they belong in a corridor of signus cuz that's where I put that 5013 hey so TC so understand that they're they're currently temp sted in the corridor um so big picture uh we're expecting there to be two 4.0 ctbs of food one of them needs to go in the AFT 4 position two and then the other one needs to go into the starboard 2 location one outer layer and you can report to us which shal number ends up in which location um Cindy what I can tell you is that whatever the number was of the 4.0 that was originally in the starbook 2 and I think it's underscore one2 position is this it's the same it's it never moves that um is that ring through with what iOS so I think what you're saying is there was already a 4.0 CTB of food in the starboard 2 location one uh location and you didn't move it if I understood Butch correctly yes um because of an I I never touched it it was an activity that he had previously I don't know what day but he said that he was supposed to move that 4.0 that IED which I think was 5013 that was the IMs thinks is in the starboard 412 where I just put the 10.0 um he had an activity to move it from there to the starboard 2 location but because there was a similar item there he um talked it with you guys that he would just leave that there and then uh I guess Tim still the 4.0 I really don't know I think he would be more clear than I'm being right now but so that 4.0 that he took up starboard 4 is kind free float um and I just put it back in the corridor um if you want it back in the op for uncore one2 location or or 22 location it'll can it be another day CU I just built that Corridor back with with the go of jsbs and foam trash and you know big box foam trash that's there it's it's it's um it's a little crazy in there stand by um Houston if you'll look at Stow TR item 97 the crew comments the crew note all this about uh 4.0 CTB 5013 and 5197 which is now in starbard 2 is in the crew note and I spoke to ISO this morning about it as well so I verbally did it and also wrote The Crew note which should clear it all up okay Houston copies all uh I think we have a good understanding of where the bags are at and absolutely TC we're going to table this for now and we'll follow up another day so no additional action required this evening okay thanks and I took photos of the bird snow track of starboard 4 and Port 4 and I will have those on ss19 momentarily ss19 thanks Houston one more thing I also wrote a crew note that I took photos of starbo 2 on S6 and that's probably been four or five hours ago okay thanks so much Butch we don't have the pictures yet but we'll look for them but Houston on two for everywhere at at convenience e you call for everywhere hey Mike I was actually calling Butch uh on a followup to his crew note about the everywhere app okay I'll let him yeah I see the everywhere app is back on my iPad okay great that's what we were hoping just wanted to confirm and and follow up with you thanks you for e e on we're with you on two go ahead uh I'm doing this this uh sear activity for the CTV that was uh TST in the lab I'm not familiar with this experiment because I didn't do it so I'm trying to figure out what stuff is in the bag and I'm thinking guessing from contact lines three four five six and seven should be indented under soapy kit is that true mad I'm hearing that no that's not true those items were not put into the Sophie kit yesterday so they're independent okay so I've got a bag with Sophie kit in it that has stuff in it um all right I I'll try and figure out where this stuff goes e Matt Hun's back with you just for some flexibility if you find those items in the kit they can just stay in the kit that's okay do you have an inventory for what goes in the kit checking on the outside of the bag there is a list of items that go with the Sophie kit but those aren't always accurate after launch e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e for and good afternoon everyone welcome here to the Launchpad and our continuing live Starliner return to Earth coverage we are now just under two hours from the scheduled undocking of the Boeing Starliner Calypso spacecraft leaving her crew on board the International Space Station uh as it returns to earth originally supposed to only spend 8 days in space Starliner launched 93 days ago and we are now just 2 hours away from that scheduled undock just over 7 hours from the deorbit burn with touchdown just under 8 hours from now NASA is going to be coming on and off the air a couple of times and of course we will patch them in so you can hear the latest from them uh around the undock and the touchdown but we're going to be staying live throughout the entire time bringing you the latest updates of everything Starliner as we get closer and closer to this undock the International Space Station currently passing over the northern part of Africa heading into the Mediterranean uh be continuing to follow uh its position and listening into the live station to ground Communications as we get closer and closer to that undocking point the hatch was closed yesterday on Boeing Starliner as it uh was prepared for today's Mission now I know we had some people asking questions on uh where will they be able to see Starliner it is targeting landing at White Sands New Mexico that's the space Harbor where the shuttle could come back um but due to that and the trajectory they're taking is from the south uh West excuse me so it's going to be very limited on who's actually able to see Starliner look like we got some lightning there on the screen from the downward facing camera uh Starliner path will take it over uh the southern portion of Baja California the northern bit of northwest Mexico and then straight into New Mexico uh so if you're right on the border of Arizona and New Mexico you might be able to see it the rest of the country most likely you're not going to be able to but but you still got 7 hours till touchdown 7 hours to deorbit burn so if you happen to be in the area definitely worth a chance might be able to take a drive a little bit closer and see that of course if you see photos or videos make sure to send those into to us on the TLP Discord and we'll try to pull some of those up on screen when Starliner is coming home we will have the live camera views from NASA and Boeing uh at that time we're expecting them to treat this like a dragon return so we should have some great views of Starliner making its return to earth now we're answering your guys's comments and questions in the chat you can keep sending those in by taking us at the Launchpad and we'll work on continuing to answer those I'm just catching up on comments in the chat we also want to hear from you on how do you think the Starliner return is going to go do you think that it is going to uh undock successfully or do you think it is going to be stuck in orbit or do you think there is going to be re-entry failure or do you think successful Landing I'm going to be back bringing you more commentary updates every 15 20 minutes as we get closer to that undocked period so stay with us right here on the Launchpad Network [Music] for e [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] e for [Music] e e e station Huntsville space to ground 2 for Matt and space Ted at your convenience on two I can take a message from that hey Mike uh yeah just real quick we were um Matt down linked the files for us from the space dead payload yesterday but we're not seeing them down here we were wondering if he knew SSC and folder that he put those on just trying to track them down okay well check and tell me again in the name of the payload space t space for for for all right ACR this is commentator on ficker one2 with a voice check for Starliner departure coverage counting from 3 to1 [Music] for e for for [Music] [Music] e e [Music] for [Music] station Houston on two for sunny and monitoring tools check out with you on too I'm in the KOA uh just finishing up my procedure here [Music] okay copy uh sounds like we're in sync just wanted to confirm that uh we are go for you to check out PCS rpop and SS for vehicle monitoring we're expecting you to perform steps one decimal 1 2 decimal 4 5 decimal 1 5 decimal 3 and 5 decimal 4 in 1 decimal 401 CST 100 monitoring tool set uper that and I'm just finishing it up and I'll give you the call when I finish Houston cop [Music] okay Houston on to pcsr poop ssc's are configured for vehicle monitoring Houston copy thanks for [Music] e [Music] for e [Music] you to TC with on two are we making big loop calls on one as usual or we making them on two hey Sunny sorry I thought that was TC Colin uh we are making them on Space to ground two okay just checking thanks e e e for e e for e [Music] for e e e on for space [Music] t h was here ready to talk about 10 I heard you call you're asking where the data is I show it in the OCA down folder 4 Huntsville data.zip it's still there you have a particular SSC or is it already just in the folder I mean it's a share drive it's on it's everywhere it's on a t drive now now that I'm seeing it I'm realizing what happened give me a second [Music] all right I'm so Mt I'm with you now yeah go ahead so I am a computer and I did not compile properly so step 2.3 in the procedure has you put the file in a file architecture T col OCA down4 Huntsville and that's exactly where I put it um on further inspection of procedure it's I didn't see that in the file architecture because in the sentence prior it says put it in space head folder in OCA down in for Huntsville I just put it for the file architecture listed there so I see where it is it's in the for Huntsville folder but it is not in the space Ted folder so I'm going to move data into the space folder and if you're just joining us welcome here to the Launchpad we are now T-minus 1 hour and Counting till the undocking scheduled for Boeing Starliner you're looking at two incredible live views from on board the International Space Station currently over the South Pacific beginning uh getting ready to head to its lowest point on this Orbit on the earth and coming back up over South America if it's your first time here though welcome my name is Zach I'm the founder and host here at the Launchpad here at TLP it's our mission to inform and Inspire the explorers of tomorrow because we believe that space is better together and we're bringing you full live Starliner return to Earth coverage covering the full Journey from undocked to touchdown uninterrupted looking at live views from on board station Starliner hidden behind the Japanese module they hope we hope that uh one of the astronauts will move the camera on board station prior to undock there'll be some other cameras Nasa uses closer to it we'll be patching in any sort of NASA broadcast uh closer to undocking they're going to go live 15 minutes before undocking so we'll uh bring that up on air uh at that point but keeping a close view at look at these live views we got people tuning in from literally all over the world it's great to have you here we got Tu in Spain Taff is in Cardiff Wales Kevin is in Quebec we've got Ken Kim sorry if I said that wrong in Barcelona CCE is in Croatia jgr is in Spain we have Irish in South Ireland Barry's in Dover uh we've got Julie in Sydney Tina is in Atlanta Georgia m is in Netherlands we've got Maria in Venezuela deserts in Arizona great to have you all here Boeing starliners hatch is closed filled up with some stuff to be brought back down to earth here uh in just over an hour when it undocks the crew of starliners staying on board station joining part of the Expedition on that uh long uh Journey Back Down uh to Earth coming not back down till February now joining crew nine but we'll dive into more of that here uh once we have undocking confirmed starliners Mission crew flight test uh maybe crew flight test one if we want to risk calling it that at this point an 8-day Mission could have been extended 10 12 days that was not uh out of the question now 93 days 6 hours 14 minutes since launch uh and Starliner is finally getting ready to leave the ISS clear that Port making way for crew n in just a couple of weeks time we're going to be answering your guys' comments and questions throughout the stream so you can send those in the chat by taking us at the Launchpad we've also been listening into to live station underground Communications got lots of people tuning in all over the world it's great to have you all here we got wood in South Dakota uh we got super duper is in Delaware Katherine's in limr Ireland we got Mike in Oregon Harley is in Michigan uh hubby is in Poland great to have you joining us Laie is in New Zealand uh Graham is in bath that's in the UK we got cap Reed in Texas newer is in Quebec uh we've got Hellfire zombie in Wisconsin retired engineers in Nova Scotia Thor's in Germany and we've got average joean Mars well done you've uh beat us all there I hope you've got lots of oxygen we got marcine in Poland Salvador is in the Dominican Republic Seb is in Berlin Germany I saw one coming in uh friend of the channel Jared headed uh howdy Zach going to try and get your stream up at Griffith Observatory tonight Jared that would be so awesome if you able to a picture of that would be super super cool or video or both uh but I love what you guys do down there I need to make a trip there used to live not far and I still haven't been to the Griffith Observatory so uh keep up your guys' amazing work and thanks for jumping on here we got miles high in Nova Scotia we got Tina in Georgia m is in the Netherlands we got Allan in Ohio uh this is an uncrewed Mission I know I see a lots of people asking uh are Butch and sunny going to be on board no they will be uh staying on board station till February now when Starliner leaves we're kind of breaking one of the Cardinal rules which is you don't have more astronauts than seats on the space station that you can come home with in case of an emergency SpaceX has made a plan with NASA that for the meantime until the crew 9 capsule arrives Butch and sunny could evacuate into uh The Crew 8 Dragon kind of into that cargo area where they could have had more seats uh and they would be able to strap in there for safe Harbor or an evacuation should they need to but they would be unsuited and unpressurized if they had to come home uh in the next couple of weeks before crew 9 gets there so very interesting situation to be on on the station that's a fail point but NASA plans for everything and we need to know all of those different uh outcomes Leon's watching from Vienna Austria we got waffle in Japan Shane's in Texas o is in Norway Mark's in South Africa or brother is in Moscow we got blue in Finland afro is in North Yorkshire UK storm is in Manchester great to have you all joining us in here you guys can keep sending in those comments and questions and we'll work on answering those live uh stealth mode asking really great question will Butch and sunny add ballast to Starliner to account for their weight uh for coming in there thanks for sending that in uh stealth mode recognize the name longtime viewer um yes so they have put on uh extra things into Starliner they're bringing home some trash uh different things from our understanding they were still working through that list of what was going to be on board at time of the last briefing uh so we don't have an exact list of everything they brought home maybe they'll be able to tell us on the live stream tonight some that they added um but just like crew 9 they're adding ballast to it for launching up with those two empty seats but to be able to bring Butch and sunny home in February the same thing uh you would want to monitor that on Starliner these vehicles are uh balanced uh based on the weight of the astronauts that are on board so they would want to make sure they keep that completely balanced thanks for sending that in starliners expected to uh touchdown in White Sands New Mexico at the uh space Harbor uh landing area same place that the shuttle could land 6 hours 49 minutes from now weather looking good around the landing site we've got that deorbit burn scheduled about 40 minutes prior to touchdown of course patch NASA in there as well we're really hoping for some great views similar to what we see with dragon uh Air Force is asking what will happen after the ISS is decommissioned will there be a new ISS made so sort of um yeah so for those that don't know the International Space Station it's been up there what are we at 25 30 years now an incredible uh achievement by Humanity making this International Cooperative space station living and working together for so many decades is is getting ready to come to its end the ISS originally wasn't expected to last past the mid 2010s here we are in 2024 and it's now scheduled for retirement in 2030 2031 so at that time they'll bring ISS home we do have a uh kind of N9 uh 12 month excuse me uh timeline the last Expedition will launch to the space station they'll do some research and science then they'll work on shutting everything down bringing home anything that they can bring home in a uh draging capsule most likely uh and then they will actually be on board when the uh vehicle that will be used to deorbit uh the space station will begin to help lower uh the ISS to a lower orbit they'll ride all the way down to 300 km in altitude they will then depart and then we believe that the the SpaceX vehicle that's being designed the deorbit vehicle uh which is kind of like a modified cargo Dragon uh has a different trunk but the actual top portion is a regular cargo Dragon but the trunk will be about double the size have a lot more propellant that'll be used to make the final de orbits and that will take about 6 months and it'll be designated to land in that designation of Point Nemo that's the furthest point from any land area it is the safe place to deposit it and station will come down in one piece lot will break up and burn up during re-entry um but he'll be retired at that point after that or prior to that though we are going to see axium station which is set to be the first commercial space station be built on board the International Space Station uh it'll uh then separate prior to the iss's retirement and it will stay on orbit that's the first of of at least seven commercial station that have been proposed a number of them are in development um so that will uh kind of to see a new era of going from an international government cooperation to commercial stations that governments just lease opportunities just like we see with Starliner and dragon now we do have one more space station currently in development by the governments and that is the lunar Gateway that'll be an orbit of the moon as part of the emis program but there is no plans to make ISS NASA and the partners have all said they will focus on Commercial stations thanks for sending in that in I know that was a long-winded answer my apologies looks like we got uh lost a signal there on the feeds from the station we should have those back in a moment or two Carol pack thank you so much for that $5 Super Chat little marching guy with his trumpet and a friend there appreciate that for those just joining we are now just 50 minutes away from that scheduled undocking of Boeing Starliner from the International Space Station uh jet A1 if you expect it to land safely in New Mexico why aren't sunny and Butch on board it's just not safe enough that we want to risk it um I I I have to really commend the NASA administrator and the NASA team NASA administrator in the last briefing or two briefings ago said we can't take the risk um you know NASA has unfortunately lost um 17 astronauts I want to make sure I got that number right uh 17 astronauts previously um and and there's questions on if some of them were due to human error or wrong mistakes of decisions uh and they're not risking that with Butch and sunny which is a really important thing space is hard people are more Priceless than taking time to figure out Solutions or figure out backup plans so they're going to bring Starliner home by itself and then Butch and sunny will come home on crew dragon as part of crew 9 now does that throw a whole break up into the whole plan of the internet National Space Station and cruise and everything yes but it's worth their safety thanks for sending that in jet you guys have questions you can keep sending those in the chat by taking us at the Launchpad work on answering those live also if it's your first time here take a moment hit that subscribe button here at the launch pad we bring you full live launch coverage of every launch around the world including some China ones when we can uh as well as docking undocking and return to Earth we also have our second channel the Launchpad news getting ready to relaunch that with with daily and 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capsule portion uh a very similar version is for cargo and we have those on Earth right now one of the cargo ones will have a different trunk which is that part above the white triangular part attached to it will be about 2/3 the size and it's going to have like 35 to 40 Little Engine thrusters on it and what they're going to do is they will dock uh to the station and then they will use that specialized vehicle to uh deorbit it um and it does sound like we'll recover the cargo dragon we won't recover the the the portion below the white triangle but the white triangle it sounds like they will recover uh after they've conducted those Burns and then the space station will be set on a course that has will bring it in safely at Point Nemo which is the furthest point from any inhabited area um so it'll be a lot more controlled than we have seen any other uh station brought down uh you know once the US dropped a space station on Australia you know they paid them a couple hundred dollars to say sorry now it would be probably Millions if not billions uh so they're going to make sure they do this right do it safely and don't uh have any risk to any buddy other than some of the fish um there'll be a large exclusion Zone put into the ocean as well make sure that there are no shipping liners or cruise ships or anything in that region as well uh Philly uh felonius funk I live 70 miles Southwest from White Sands in the flight path will I be able to see the re-entry glow that's a great question we're going to bring up the map on screen once we have undocking confirmed uh but you should I believe be able to it's uh about 3/4 of the width of Arizona should be able to see uh the re-entry you will of course be at the very end of the plasma uh the plasma uh streak is mostly over the ocean uh for this so unfortunately not many people are going to get to see it unless you're out on a cruise ship you know really way off at Sea uh but uh we do expect some people to see it and you should be able to that close and you've got over you got about 6 hours it might be worth the drive it's about an hour drive for you hour and a half uh maybe head on out see Starliner come home if you do happen to get photos yourself or anyone else of them um coming back of the the Starliner not them but the Starliner capsule make sure you send us those over on our Discord or via social media uh tpn official on Twitter or the Launchpad Network on Facebook and in Instagram uh alire question are programs like Starliner and Boeing just the old way of doing things now that there is SpaceX Etc um no so Boeing and Starliner is exactly like SpaceX uh they are a commercial company that were offering commercial programming um you know and there's a lot of different things to it I know some people are like well you know SpaceX got it perfect right off the bat no they had lots of delays they did have cargo Dragon V1 one fly before they had V2 which is Cargo and crew they had some learnings from that they are very different vehicles but they had some learnings they had some experience uh Boeing has not made a spacecraft uh like Starliner before um so there's a lot to learn it's a completely different vehicle completely different shape operations you know a lot of things so uh Boeing is just take going to take a little bit longer and we hope that they nail it because Boeing's not just part of NASA's programming and getting astronauts to to the station just like Dragon isn't either both dragon and Starliner will be used for you know probably decades to come to FY commercial missions up to the commercial space stations a great question on sending that in uh we do have a poll going on I see people talking about it in the chat how do you think the Starliner return is going to go do you think we'll see an undocking scrub or failure do you think Starliner is going to get stuck in orbit and what we mean by that is it gets stuck but it still comes home so you know maybe they take longer than the few hours they're planning they need to take more time for some reason are we going to see a re-entry failure are we going to have a successful landing and it's amazing to see it basically tied 13,000 votes and it's a tie at 40% successful landing and a re-entry failure that's very interesting to see uh JK thanks so much for becoming a or orbital Explorer we appreciate that catching up on the chat uh bbop new what will they do with the mission patches on the ISS so there's part I I'm assuming you're talking about the end of the space station they are going to bring a a number of things home that they can uh on those final few missions so when we know that the you know station is really starting to wrap up its time then they will uh work to bring those uh home so great question thanks for sending that in if you're just joining us we'll do a quick little reset here you are looking at two incredible live views from on board the International Space Station on the right side of your screen is crew8 uh SpaceX crew Dragon capsule to the bottom left of that you see kind of a silver tube with a tube coming off of it with a white box on top that is all the Japanese uh experiment modules or the gem uh and behind that module that's sticking up with the white box behind it that is where star liner is docked to the International Space Station its hatch is closed we're now just 41 minutes 50 seconds away from that estimated time of undocking we are now just over 6 and 1 half hours from touchdown in White Sands New Mexico we'll be staying live all night bringing you uninterrupted coverage answering your questions on everything as we follow Starliner on its return to Earth we are expecting NASA to go live in about uh 20 minutes time and when they do we'll of course patch them in so we can listen to the latest updates on how everything's progressing with the Starliner for undocking they'll end their stream rather quickly we'll stay live answer more of your questions and then patch 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down to the undocking and return of Boeing Starliner concluding its 8 day now 93-day mission on board the International Space Station stay with us right here on the Launchpad Network for for e e for [Music] for [Music] [Music] [Music] e [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] for [Music] for [Music] for e e e e [Music] for e e e for for e on two for s 19 with you on two um it's see I don't know if we ever circled back on how I am to leave my SSC uh what state I'm supposed to leave it in overnight still using it and TC we've uh chatted that down here we're planning to schedule it for a different day there are no operational impacts to you using your SSC our tenative plan is to schedule the troubleshooting early next week okay um so just put don't know if um what I was seeing last night with the scin and the um the amount of time it took for it to uh uh complete was that was that expected yes I'm hearing that was expected okay CU I I mean I L I went to sleep and I woke up it was still going and I just I just hard did a hard shut down of the SS yeah copy all TC our plan uh we're hearing that you'll need to leave your laptop powered on with the lid open so our goal is to find a time where it won't interrupt your sleep and if you're just joining us welcome here to the Launchpad and our continuous live coverage of starliners Return To Earth we are now just 20 minutes 35 seconds away from that scheduled undocking time of Starliner from the International Space Station if you've been following along over the last few hours teams have been preparing for that to happen happen here we have had successful hatch closure yesterday and Starliner is ready to go we've had a confirmed go for weather uh as well for Starliner to return to White Sands New Mexico uh just 6 hours 16 minutes from now in just a couple of minutes NASA will begin their live coverage of the undocking the first of two broadcasts NASA will be doing uh today and we'll be patching those in live right here on the Launchpad so be able to watch those as we continue our uninterrupted coverage though NASA may take breaks at times in their coverage we'll be staying live until Starliner is back on the ground hopefully a little bit later here tonight we're also answering your comments and questions so you can keep sending those in the chat by taking us at the Launchpad and we'll work on answering those live you are looking at two live views from the International Space Station we're going to switch over to our secondary view here our layout as we get ready for NASA to begin their live coverage from Johnson Space Center as NASA's Boeing Starliner is set to leave its crew behind on the International Space Station and return to Earth uh if it's your first time here though welcome my name is Zach I'm the founder and host here at the Launchpad here at TLP it's our mission to inform and Inspire the explorers of tomorrow because we believe that space is better together and Cal uh or Cal tx01 thank you so so much for that incredibly generous Super Chat uh super coverage team I remember as a kid watching Walter kronite over uh cover the Mercury and Gemini's flights the coverage we get now is so complete and detailed it's almost like we are part of each Mission great job thank you so much Cal that means so much to me and our team this is truly an honor that we get to do stuff like this and the fact that uh you guys watching and donating like that uh are uh making this all possible uh we wouldn't get to live here down on the space coast and be part of these if you guys weren't here so thank you very very much uh for your generous support uh if you're in the Discord uh let me know uh definitely like to send you a thank you there as well it looks like NASA is getting ready for their live coverage let's listen in Johnson Space Center the Starliner Mission Control in Houston where teams are preparing for the autonomous undocking and departure of the uncrewed Boeing Starliner spacecraft from the International Space Station undocking today is currently planned for five :4 p.m. central 6:04 p.m. Eastern I'm Anna Schneider with NASA Communications and joining me today in Starliner mission control is Lauren biniki from Boeing Communications across the hall in the International Space Station flight control room we also have NASA's Rob navius in preparation for today's undocking activities the teams here in Starliner mission control and the flight control room flight control team in the International Space Station flight control room recently completed the go noo Poll for starliners undocking the teams all pulled go to proceed with undocking and the team here in Starliner mission control is being led by flight director Chloe Marin today's undocking will set Starliner on its path home for landing at wh sand space Harbor in New Mexico targeting approximately 11:00 p.m. central Friday September 6th midnight Eastern on Saturday NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunny Williams flew to the International Space Station in June as part of NASA's Boeing crew flight test lifting off a top a United launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from SP space launch complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral space for station in Florida on June 5th the Starliner spacecraft docked to the International Space Station on June 6th during the June 6th Rendevous NASA and Boeing identified helium leaks and experienced issues with the spacecraft reaction control system or RCS thrusters as Starliner approached the station since then engineering teams have completed a significant amount of work including reviewing a collection of data conducting flight and ground testing hosting independent reviews with agency propulsion experts and developing various return contingency plans the uncertainty and lack of expert concurrence did not meet the agency's safety and performance requirements for human space flight thus prompting the NASA decision to return Boeing Starliner spacecraft to Earth without astronauts Butch Willmore and sunny Williams aboard the uncrewed return allows NASA and Boeing to continue Gathering testing data on Starliner during its upcoming flight home while also not accepting more risk than is necessary for its crew Willmore and Williams will continue their work formally as part of the Expedition 71 and 72 crew through February of 2025 they will then fly home aboard a dragon spacecraft with two other crew members assigned to the agency SpaceX crew 9 mission NASA astronaut Nick ha and Ros Cosmos cosmina Alexander goranov as part of NASA's commercial crew program this is Boe second flight to the International Space Station and third Starliner flight test overall following a second orbital flight test in May of 2022 yesterday the hatches were closed between Starliner and the International Space Station there are three hatches that separate the inside of Starliner from the orbiting laboratory the Starliner hatch and the AP pass hatch and no two forward hatch on the station side following hatch closure teams work through steps to depressurize the vestibule which is the area between the station hatch and Starliner hatch that were exposed to the vacuum of space prior to docking shortly after the go no go poll earlier today where the joint teams here in the Starliner mission control and the International Space Station Mission Control ped go for undocking NASA astronaut Sunny Williams called down to the flight control team on Space to ground to share some words with the team before starlander departure later today we'll go ahead and Replay that exch exchange for you now station Houston Space to ground two for Starliner undock status go ahead we're with you hey Sunny both the Starliner and ISS flight control teams have pulled go for undock at this time the expected undock time is 2204 okay copy 2204 hey you know we're just looking at the flight control roster and like wow it is the allstar team you guys it is the time to bring Calypso home you have got this where we have your backs and you've got this bring her back to Earth good luck sunny and Butch this is Chloe just on behalf of the entire Mo team and I know the other flight control teams around the building we thank you for your endless Support over the years we've enjoyed every training event and every meeting we remember every setback and every Revelation with you the teams on the ground have worked countless hours over the last few weeks months and for a group of us years to bring Calypso back and we're ready to do that today we wish you the best of luck in your increment and sunny I will make sure the right people have your Coming Home song ready to play on Space theg ground when it's time for you guys to come home good luck and thank you wonderful comments uh light we appreciate that and we agree many years of uh great enjoyment um siming together uh playing together and being involved with each other's lives and it's been special um bring it home Cy thank you and have a good evening we are now just over 13 minutes away from today's planned undocking as we continue to approach that undocking you can see the team here and the Starliner Mission Control team working um in tandem with the ISS flight control room across the hallway just before we came on the air here the teams opened up the helium manifold to check Starliner leak rate everything looks good the teams say the rate remains steady and we have plenty of margin for the ex uh rest of the flight so let's talk a little bit about what is coming up at around 50:2 p.m. central 602 Eastern we are going to be listening for the authority to proceed for undocking after the ATP or authority to proceed is issued for undocking the hooks on the NASA docking system will begin to open there are 12 hooks that seal surfaces between the docking system and the ISS International docking adapter or the Ida once all of those hooks are open Springs on Starliner docking ring will push the spacecraft away from the space station so again we're expecting that undocking at 5:4 p.m. central 604 Eastern and then just a few seconds later at about 5 m out our first separation burn starliners thrusters will complete two short firings to gradually increase the separation speed to help the spacecraft carefully move away from the orbiting laboratory the command given to Starliner will be to back straight away to the 200 meter mark But then a few seconds later a second command will be given before it gets too far to change that path and head up higher than station these 12 pre-planned Burns will be performed with starliners forward- facing reaction control system or RCS thrusters which have been performing nominally during this flight Starliner will then begin a breakout burn which will take the spacecraft forward and above the station during this burn sequence star liner thrusters will perform a series of 12 short firings this entire sequence will take about 5 minutes to complete and will allow Starliner to quickly breakouts outside of the approach aloid or AE about 4 minutes into this burn sequence Starliner will exit the keep out sphere or Kos the keep out sphere is an imaginary 200 M sphere centered on the space station once outside the keep out sphere vehicles must provide a four orbit safe free drift trajectory around 510 PM Central that automated breakout sequence will be completed and then just 15 minutes later we will be out of the approach ellipsoid the approach ellipsoid is in the same family as the keep out sphere but this time it is an imaginary three-dimensional ellipsoid around the space station Vehicles outside the approach ellip soid have to be on what we call a 24-hour safe free drift trajectory and that means the spacecraft would not cross over that imaginary line for at least 24 hours even if it lost all maneuvering capabilities once outside the approach ellipsoid joint operations between the Starliner mission control and International Space Station flight control room will conclude and Starliner will be on a path back to Earth a few minutes ago teams completed a final weather briefing to analyze weather predictions for the landing site at wh sand space Harbor in New Mexico and the weather continues to look good to support a landing later today as part of the departure preparations for Starliner Mission managers completed a series of operational and weather checks yesterday 24 hours before undocking NASA analyzed the weather predictions for the landing site and there are several different weather criteria that must be met including winds at the selected Landing site must be approximately 13 mph or 12 knots or less when uncrewed and ground temperatures must be warmer than 15° Fahrenheit and the cloud ceiling must be at least 1,000 ft one nautical mile of visibility is also required and the area must be clear of precipitation thunderstorms and lightning within an approximately 22 mile radius a final weather check will also take place before the spacecraft D orbit burn which is currently scheduled for 10:17 p.m. central 11:17 p.m. Eastern and following the weather briefing the navigation and docking lights on Starliner were turned on the Lars were confirmed to operate and the r cards were enabled for departure the Lars or laser detection and ranging lasers create a 3D picture of the International Space Station for starliners computers to help the spacecraft guide itself around the ISS when it's flying close to the state the ladar system was developed and tested in orbit aboard the space shuttle as they docked with ISS the r cards or remote analog interface unit gathers data on the status and health of critical spacecraft systems during All Phases of the mission this allows the important systems information to be stored aboard the spacecraft so Engineers can review it once the spacecraft lands e e we're now just over 6 minutes away from the planned undocking at 5:4 p.m. central as we continue to stand by for Starliner departure from the International Space I'll hand it over to NASA's Rob navius for an update from the International Space Station flight control room thanks Anna here in the space station flight control room at the Johnson Space Center in Houston the uh flight control team led by flight director Anthony varia is in the final moments before the expected undocking of uh Starliner from the forward Port of the harmony module on the International Space Station once uh the undocking is complete and Starliner has exited the approach ellipsoid that you heard Lauren describe just a moment or two ago the uh nine crew members on board the station led by Commander ala kononenko will begin their sleep period they're going to be moving into an off-duty period on Saturday the vacancy of the forward Port of Harmony will open up uh that port for the uh beginning of two crew rotations over the next several weeks next Wednesday NASA's da Pettit and Ros Cosmos cosmonauts Al Alexi of chinin and Ivan Vagner will be launching from the bik and or Cosmo Drome in Kazakhstan on a two orbit Rendevous to reach the International Space Station that will swell the station's population to 12 and uh begin an 11-day Handover with NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson and kenko and Nikolai Tru who will be departing the station on September 23rd a day later if everything goes as planned NASA NASA's uh Nick hag and Ros Cosmos konut alexand uh Alexander gorbin will be launching from the Cape Canaveral space force station on the SpaceX crew Dragon Freedom uh they will uh be a two-man crew to reach the International Space Station and provide the orbital Uber if you will for Butch Wilmore and sunny Williams to come home on next February with Wilmore and Williams completing what is expected to be about a 262 day Mission meanwhile the crew8 crew Matt Dominic Mike Barrett Janette EPs and Alexander greenin are in the final weeks of their mission on board the station they are planning to depart after a 5-day Handover with he and gorinov that Handover will uh lead the way for a departure on or around October 1st the crew8 crew will then be coming home to bring the station back to its complement of seven crew members so with that we're about uh 3 and A2 minutes away from the planned undocking of Starliner we'll be watching carefully it will take about 21 and A2 minutes from undocking for Starliner to exit the approach ellipsoid that you heard Lauren describe a moment ago that's that 2 and 1 half mile long by 1.2 mile wide Corridor if you will the neighborhood of the International Space Station so we'll be following along as Starliner begins its journey home and a landing at Mid night eastern time at the white sand space Harbor in New Mexico and if you're just joining us welcome here to the Launchpad we're now just over two minutes away from the undocking of Starliner from the International Space Station you're looking at multiple live views coming in from the ISS as it passes over uh the Russia and Asia uh area of its flight path coming up to that day night line we're getting these fantastic views as the Sun starts to shine on the International Space Station we are going to take the Starliner viw full screen here as we get ready in that last 90 seconds or so until undocking if it's your first time here welcome my name is Zach I'm the founder and host here at the Launchpad we're going to get into more answering your questions so keep sending those in the chat by taking us at the Launchpad we'll get into that following undock let's listen back in to NASA Johnson Mission Control he's ready for undock monitoring thank you Rob and we just heard some conversation between the crew on the International Space Station and the teams here in the Starliner Mission Control confirming that we are continuing to be go for an undock in just under 2 minutes from now at 5:04 p.m. e Central 6:04 p.m. Eastern we are standing by for the command of the undock ATP or authority to proceed once the authority to proceed is issued for undocking the NDS or NASA docking system hooks will begin to open and there are 12 hooks that seal the surfaces between the inds and the ISS International docking adapter Ida once all 12 hooks are open Springs on Starliner docking ring will push the spacecraft away from the space station and flight director Chloe Marion just asked for quiet in the room as we are approaching one minute out from Starliner undocking and we just heard confirmation that the umbilicals are retracting and hooks are beginning to drive 30 seconds separation confirmed Starliner is now backing away from station and starting its return to Earth Starliner sters will then complete two short firings to gradually increase the separation speed to help the spacecraft carefully move away from the orbiting lab the vehicle is now about 2 meters away from the International Space Station at the time of undocking Starliner in the International Space Station we're flying approximately 260 statute miles over Central China Starliner will be beginning a breakout burn soon which will take the spacecraft forward and above station during this burn sequence starliners thrusters will perform a series of 12 short firings the entire sequence takes about 5 minutes to complete and allows Starliner to quickly break out to outside the approach ellipsoid or AE and about four minutes into the burn sequence Starliner will exit the keep out sphere or the Kos and you can see those thrusters firing there on the left of your screen as Starliner backs away from space station and we are now just at 35 M away from the International Space Station we saw a good first burn Houston ISS ISS thrusters enabled confirmation all 27 Jets have fired Houston copy ISS thrusters enabled and you're seeing the light show there on your screen and the first three of the 12 firings have completed and there's about a 100 second pause until the fourth burn and if you're just joining us you are looking at live views from the International Space Station where Starliner is beginning its Journey back to Earth we're going to be staying live over the next 6 hours as we follow Starliner on its Journey from the International Space Station back down to White Sands New Mexico and we hope that you will stay with us during that time we're going to continue to listen in to Johnson Space Center and then we'll get back to to your comments and questions if you haven't yet though hit that subscribe button head over to Launchpad store You've Got 5 hours 52 minutes till touchdown and that is the cut off to get your limited edition Starliner crew flight test merch as well from the Launchpad store with global Shipping but let's listen back in to NASA Mission Control Starliner officially concluding 93 Days 7 hours since launch it's been on station for over 91 days and we're excited to get to see it finally begin its journey home but if without saying you can't not say it Butch and sunny are not on board Starliner has left her crew behind station we are 15 seconds away from the fourth burn in the series of 12 and need just saw four which just completed we're hearing good burn and the fifth burn and that sequence of 12 just completed and it was a good burn the sixth burn in the series of 12 was just completed and it was a good burn we have we are halfway through the series of 12 six more to go you might be able to see some of those lights on the front of Starliner a red and a green and a white those indicate the different sides of Starliner and they're used by the ISS crew to watch Starliner move away from the ISS along the undocking axis and we just heard good confirmation of both Burns seven and eight completed Starliner undocked approximately five minutes ago and has just a handful of short firings left in its breakouts breakout burn and it is now about 150 M away from the International Space Station and we heard confirmation of a good burn n three more to go burn 10 good burn we have one more burn to go but they have confirmed that Starliner has crossed the KE B sphere or the Kos which is an imaginary 200 M sphere centered on the International Space Station that helps flight controllers here on the ground monitor the arrival and departure of visiting Vehicles station Houston Space to ground 2 Starliner has exited the keep out sphere she's exited the key spere a reminder this automated breakout sequence was chosen to use Starliner forward thrusters which have remained nominal during this flight and we heard confirmation that all 12 Burns in this series of breakout burn firings have completed and they were all good Burns Starliner has crossed the keep out sphere so the next milestone for Star liner's departure will be crossing the approach ellipsoid or AE the AE is another invisible shape monitored by the flight control team measuring 4 km by 2 km x 2 km Starliner is scheduled to cross the approach ellipsoid in about 10 minutes Vehicles outside the AE have to be on what we call a 24-hour safe free drift trajectory which means the spacecraft would not cross into the approach ellipsoid for at least 24 hours even if it lost all maneuvering capabilities once outside the approach ellipsoid joint operations between Starliner mission control and the International Space Station flight control room will conclude and Starliner will be on a path back to Earth we're now taking a look from the Vesta system which stands for vision based electrooptical sensor tracking assembly it's a bit of a mouthful so we like to call it Vesta and this is a look from Starliner back at the International Space Station the system is really the eyes of Starliner it's able to pick up on features on the outside of station like handrails and reflectors you can see some of that on your screen there in the outlines and it's the way to assess star liner's position and attitude it also gives the ground teams a very accurate look at Starliner location relative to the station so earlier we were taking a look from the station back at Starliner now we're looking from Starliner back at station we're just under 10 minutes away from the AE exit so in the meantime we will check back in with NASA's Rob navius in the internationala space station flight control room Rob thank you guys um flight Dynamics has reported that Starliner is on a perfect trajectory backing away from the International Space Station and opening uh a rate of about 13 a half statu miles per rev at the time of the deorbit burn at uh 1017 and 13 seconds p.m. central time later this evening the uh vehicle will be about 56 statute miles away from the international space station that deorbit burn by the way will be a 59 second burn to slow Starliner down by California and heading towards its landing at the wh sand space Harbor in New Mexico with the forward Port of Harmony now vacant that sets the stage as I mentioned a few minutes ago for the start of a couple of crew rotations that are coming up down at the bikon or cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Don peted of NASA and rosmos cosmonauts Alexi of chinin and ion Vagner and their backups are in the final stages of their preparations for launch next Wednesday their soyu 2.1a booster and the soyu ms26 spacecraft that they will ride to orbit uh they that vehicle will roll out to the Launchpad in bikan or on Sunday and then final preparations will lead them to a launch next Wednesday at 11:23 a.m. Central Time heading for a two orbit 3-hour 10-minute journey to dock to the International Space Station's rosette module now that forward port on Harmony that was just vacated by Starliner departure will be the Port of Call for NASA astronaut Nick ha and Ros Cosmos Cosmonaut Alexander gorbin off and their launch no earlier than September 24th on the SpaceX Dragon Freedom spacecraft off of launch complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral space force station that will be about a 30-hour transit for those uh two crew members to reach the International Space Station and the automated docking to the forward Port of Harmony ultimately he gorbin off Butch Wilmore and sunny Williams will do a relocation of the uh SpaceX Dragon spacecraft from the forward Port of Harmony to the Zenith Port of Harmony opening up that forward port for the arrival of the next SpaceX cargo ship SpaceX 31 that's scheduled for launch in October so a lot of activities uh lying ahead for the space station crew the uh crew board the International Space Station soon will begin its sleep period and an off duty day on Saturday while the activity shifts over to the white flight control room down the hall as they are in a shift Handover right now uh flight director Rick henling will be taking over shortly to supervise entry and Landing operations and uh the team over there will be monitoring the progress of Starliner as it moves to its deorbit position about 56 statued miles away from the internet space station with that we'll turn it back to the white ficker and Anna and Lauren thank you rob Starliner is now about 750 meters away from the International Space Station as it continues to make its way to the approach ellipsoid exit again that approach ellipsoid exit is targeted for 5:25 and 30 seconds p.m. central Time 6:25 and 30 seconds P.M p.m. eastern time and everything continues to proceed as planned with Starliner departure and return back to Earth and you're looking live at Starliner and free drift Engineers are telling us that the breakout Burns all went well thrusters are all looking good everything is nominal as we continue up and around space station and head back to Earth again Starliner undocked just a short while ago from the International Space Station at 5:4 p.m. central 6:04 p.m. Eastern as the space station and Starliner were flying approximately 260 stat shoot miles over Central China and shortly after that physical separation starliners thrusters completed two short firings to gradually increase the separation speed and helped the spacecraft carefully move away from the orbiting laboratory as part of the separation burn and Then star Starliner began the breakout burn which was a series of 12 short firings which allowed the spacecraft to quickly move outside um the keep out sphere and it is now approaching the um approach ellipsoid exit and once Starliner is outside of the approach ellipsoid The Joint operations between teams here and the Starliner mission control and the International Space Station flight control room across the hall will end and Starliner will be back on its path to Earth and we are about 6 minutes away from that approach ellipsoid exit and Starliner is now about 900 M away from the International Space Station traveling at a rate of 1.2 m/ second that dot in the center of your screen is Starliner looking from space station e we are now about 5 minutes away from the approach ellipsoid exit Starliner undocked from the International Space Station about 16 minutes ago at 5:04 p.m. central 6:04 p.m. Eastern Starliner is now just over a th000 m away from the International Space Station after Starliner crosses the approach ellipsoid the next milestones for the vehicle will be its entry cover closure and that is planned for about 6:42 p.m. central 7:42 p.m. Eastern and then there will be some checkouts of the omac thrusters at 7:05 p.m. central 8:05 p.m. Eastern and then after that we get into the entry and Landing coverage and the go noo for the deorbit burn will be at approximately 9:57 p.m. central 10:57 p.m. Eastern following with the deorbit burn about 20 minutes later at 10:17 p.m. central 1117 p.m. Eastern again seeing good views is of Starliner leaving the International Space Station it's that distant dot on your screen vehicle is now about 1,120 M away from the International Space Station and we just heard confirmation that Starliner is out of the approach ellipsoid the approach ellipsoid is a imaginary three-dimensional ellipsoid around the space station and V Vehicles outside of the approach ellipsoid have to be on what we call a 24hour safe free drift trajectory which means the spacecraft would not cross into the approach ellipsoid for at least 24 hours even if it lost all maneuvering capabilities now that Starliner is outside of the approach ellipsoid joint operations between the Starliner mission control and International Space Station fight control room will conclude and Starliner is now on a path back to Earth so once again Starliner undocked from the International Space Station at 50:4 p.m. central 6:04 p.m. Eastern as the space station was flying 260 statute miles over Central China shortly after physical separation starliners thrusters completed two short firings to gradually increase the separation speed to help the spacecraft carefully move away from the orbiting lab laboratory Starliner then began the breakout burn and Starliner smaller Jets performed a series of 12 short Burns to allow the spacecraft to quickly move outside the approach ellipsoid Starliner again crossed the approach ellipsoid moments ago and is now on its journey home the next milestones for Starliner ahead of its deorbit burn targeted for 10:17 p.m. include crossing the entry cover closing the entry cover and conducting checkouts of the omx or the orbital maneuvering and attitude control thrusters those are the bigger Jets on Starliner for now let's check in one final time with NASA's Rob navius following Starliner exit from the approach ellipsoid thank you guys uh here in the space station flight control room flight director Anthony varia and his team will be remaining on Console throughout the course of the evening keeping a watchful eye on things for Starliner status Calypso has exited the approach ellipsoid Sunny we are ready for RWS tear down when you are okay she's on her way home congratulations to uh the undar team and will be te down the copies thanks spacecraft communicators here in the station flight control room talking to Sunny Williams International Space Station the uh Starliner is a trajectory moving well away from the International Space Station where it's deorbit burn at 10:17 and 13 seconds p.m. this evening once again that'll be a 59 second burn of the four orbital maneuvering and attitude control system uh Jets on the Starliner spacecraft to slow Starliner down by 129.99 Eastern Time 11 p.m. central Time give or take a few seconds at the wh sand space Harbor in New Mexico with that the space station team will begin to turn its attention to the next major activity that will be the launch out of the bikon or cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday of NASA's Don petet and rosmos cosmonauts Alexi opinan and Ivan Vagner on the soyu's ms26 spacecraft that will increase the station's population from 9 to 12 and the beginning of a busy several weeks of crew rotations on the International Space Station leading to the start of expedition 72 so with that uh we're going to call it a day here in the space station flight control room turn it back to you guys in the white flight control room down the hall all right thank you very much Rob Starliner is now on its way back home to Earth and has about a 6-hour journey ahead of Landing we are targeting again around 11:00 Central midnight Eastern for that landing at White Sand space haror in New Mexico we will resume live coverage of starlander deorbit entry and Landing beginning at 9:50 p.m. central 10:50 p.m. Eastern until then thank you for joining us for starliners undocking and departure from the International Space Station this is Mission Control Houston and if you're just joining us you don't have to head anywhere cuz we are staying live this entire time continuing to follow Starliner on its Journey back home just 24 minutes ago Starliner Departed the International Space Station after spending over 91 days dock to the station it now has 5 and 1 half hours till it's expected to touchdown in the White Sands New Mexico space Harbor same place that we used to bring shuttle back a couple of times uh and we're excited to see that and we'll be staying live through all of this answering your guys' comments and questions you can keep sending those in the the chat by taking us at the Launchpad and we'll work on answering those while we continue to uh monitor uh and we are continuing to listen in to the mission control Nets to space station uh uh through all of this as they will be tearing things down uh and uh shutting down that joint Loop operations uh that they had online here for today on your screen you've got on the far right the return path to give you a little idea of where you might be able to see it if you're in southern Baja California Northwestern Mexico or the South uh West part of New Mexico you may be able to see starliners return if not stay here with us on the Launchpad and follow along all of the uh activities we'll be patching NASA back in uh at any point once they uh are a live broadcasting and uh we will of course follow along with that we will have these occasional dropouts of the views from the space station but we'll be following along the location of the ISS and of Starliner uh if we're able to get that acquisition of signal on the tracker if not we'll bring in updates from Boeing as we get them as well but I know we got people tuning in from all over the world and we're glad to have you joining us here take a moment let us know in the chat where you are watching from if you haven't yet and continue to send in those questions uh taking a look at that poll how do you think Starliner return will go 11% of 185,000 people thought the undocking wouldn't happen or wouldn't work unfortunately you're all wrong and now it's on to the next thing the Starliner get stuck in orbit or do we go for that deorbit burn 4 hours 46 minutes from now so we'll be following along with updates coming in from Boeing over the next few hours as we continue to monitor uh the Starliner spacecraft on its return to Earth we've got lots of people tuning in from all 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occurred just 3 hours 45 minutes minutes ago from the International Space Station things are going to get ready to begin ramping up as we are now less than 90 minutes away from deorbit Burn and just over two hours away away excuse me from touchdown we did just have an update from NASA and Boeing starliners entry cover has been closed and secured for re-entry teams continue to Target 12:00 a.m. eastern time September 7th for landing in New Mexico so everything continuing right on schedule for when they are hoping to have that landing and we will have live views of that beginning here uh in not too long when NASA re begins their live coverage we will of course be patching them in uh and listening into NASA and Boeing mission control as they bring Boeing Starliner home we're expecting that live coverage to begin around 10:50 p.m. Eastern 1 hour from now and that will cover the full deorbit burn and Landing uh deorbit burn scheduled 1 hour 26 minutes from now at 11:7 p.m. eastern time Landing 2 hours 9 minutes from now scheduled at 12 a.m. at wh Sands New Mexico's space Harbor there will also be a Boeing Starliner post Landing news conference uh later in the morning at 1:30 a.m. eastern what we'll probably do is hold a uh replay on that depending how Landing coverage goes uh and then we are of course following along the countdown to launch for the soyu crew on Wednesday but all eyes on Boeing Starliner which is currently free flow looing in low earth orbit preparing to conduct its deorbit burn Starliner launched 933 days 11 hours ago on what was set to be an 8-day Mission that's extended to 93 days and Starliner has left its crew aboard the International Space Station a modified crew 9 mission is set to launch on September 24th to the ISS with just two astronauts on board the SpaceX crew dragon in the meantime Butch and sunny are now part of the Expedition Mission they'll be staying on board the International Space Station till February when they'll come home as part of crew 9 in the meantime though if anything were to arise on station Butch and sunny have gone through training and preparations that they can use crew Eight's crew dragon as their Safe Harbor for any reason if they were a needing to do so and they did depart the ISS to come home they would be returning unsuited and unpressurized basically as cargo and dragon but they would have a uh safe way to uh they'd at least be coming home safely but if you are just joining us we have had confirmation the hatch uh and nose cone the entry cone has been closed on the Boeing star liner that is confirmed by Boeing and crews are continuing to Target a deorbit burn 1 hour 24 minutes from now we're going to continue answering your guys' comments and questions over the next 2 hours so make sure you send those in the chat by taking us at the Launchpad we'll begin full commentary coverage a little bit closer to that deorbit burn and we expect NASA coverage to begin in about an hour's time if you 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up at the International Space Station if it's your first time here though welcome my name is Zach I'm the founder and host here at the Launchpad here at top it's our mission to inform and Inspire the explorers of tomorrow because we believe that space is better together we're glad to have you joining us here if you haven't yet take a moment and let us know in the chat where you're watching from we're going to continue to answer your guys' comments and questions that you can send in in the chat for free just make sure you tag us at the launch pad so we can see those and we'll get to as many of those questions as we can over the next 1 hour and 16 minutes we're also getting a new poll set up in the chat we want to hear from you how do you think this return to Earth is going to go you can let us know in the comments as well do you think we're going to see a successful Landing or do you think that uh unfortunately things might go a little bit differently we'll have to wait and see of course we want to be positive and are hoping for the best of Starliner but we also want to be practical and this is a spacecraft re-entry and a spacecraft that has not had necessarily a perfect flight but we're excited to see Starliner come back to earth with that deorbit burn committing it to re-entry scheduled just 32 minutes from now we got people tuning in from all over the world we got Andy in Vancouver we got Philip in Huntsville at Alabama we've got David in Michigan Timothy is in New Mexico Timothy might actually be able to see it tonight yeah depending on the the area we got uh sh Shelty in New York welcome Austin's in South Florida Adams in New Hampshire Melody is in Chicago great to have you here uh Mark's asking should I be able to see it in Southern California so we do have that view on the top right or side right of your screen that is the re-entry Corridor where it'll be visible uh during the flight path so it is a very small flight path that will be able to see it here so unfortunately you will not be able to see it from California we got will and Munich Germany Patty and Springfield Massachusetts welcome we've also got Roy and Sydney Australia we've got uh Angel angelis sorry if I said that wrong in El Paso Rick is in Tennessee Xavier's in Arizona Cathy's in Florida uh John says he's on Starliner I hope not John if if you are good luck uh enjoy the ride uh Angel is in California Adrian's in Melbourne Australia we got McDuff in Montreal Quebec uh Jean uh welcome great to have you here we got Ken in Pennsylvania Canadian Spirits in BC we got Andrew in Tennessee and we got Taylor Swift lover in California I mean how can you not be a Swifty uh Cameron's in Kentucky and we got ronato sorry if I said that wrong in Guatemala it's great to have you all joining us here if you haven't yet though take a moment engage the like button share out the stream invite people to join us back here as we get set to watch history of the Boeing starliners return the end of the official crew flight test unfortunately returning without her crew uh to make sure that safety is the priority crew of the crew of Starliner Butch and sunny will return as part of crew nine uh but they will be now staying on board the International Space Station until February of 2025 a little bit longer than their original 8-day Mission you guys have questions you can keep sending those in the chat by taking us at the Launchpad and we'll work on answering those live uh Troy what's the difference in final missions of dragon vers the Starliner uh I'm not sure what you mean final missions as both are still flying um but uh crew nine uh crew eight will stay on board station for a few more weeks till crew N9 launches then they normally have a week week and a half hand over crew eight will go home crew 9 is only going to fly with two astronauts on board Butch and sunny will join them officially on station and then they will stay till February Dreamland says they won't be home for Christmas super sad yeah it's uh definitely a big thing uh NASA keeps saying Butch and sunny knew this was a test flight knew there was a chance that they got stuck up longer uh and that that's their job uh is that to handle this so some interesting com coming in from NASA but uh we'll be following along as uh unfortunately Butch and sunny will be up on the International Space Station a little longer than originally thought of but uh I'm sure they will uh not complain necessarily about being on board the international laboratory either they've both been there for before they've both said it's like returning home uh and uh I don't think I'd complain about a little bit of extra time uh on board the space station either uh but uh safety is the priority and that's what we're here to see tonight uh Shel is asking what will happen to the capsule if it touches down safely Boeing will collect it just like they would have if there was a crew they'll uh make sure the area is safe they'll approach it um they may open it we'll have to see uh but uh they will be uh treating this as if it was a normal Boeing return Starliner return and then they will take it back and they will investigate unfortunately the area that had most of the problems is in their service module on Dragon we call it the trunk um that is the area for Starliner that has a lot of the thrusters and unfortunately that part we jettison prior to uh de uh excuse me re-entry so with that uh it is not something that we're going to be able to recover uh ly gaming is asking do you know how big the astronaut pool is available people for space I don't have the exact number I know they accepted uh and we're training I believe it was 12 or so new astronauts last year and they've just completed trading and they do that every few years so I'd say NASA's astronaut pool now is probably probably in the range of 40 to 50 um and then the esa UK Russia all have a group uh but I'd probably say there's less than 80 worldwide um that are ready not including China now we are expecting NASA to begin their live coverage here momentarily and the moment that they do we'll listen in for an update from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston for an update on how things are proceeding I'll be back giving more commentary updates throughout the stream so you can keep sending In Those Questions by taking us at the Launchpad also make sure you join us over on the TP Discord that's where our community hangs out in between streams and we would love to see you there also if you're interested in becoming part of the TLP crew our applications are open and we would love to see some more of you join here on the TLP crew as we continue our mission to inform and Inspire the explorers of tomorrow cuz we believe that space is better together Starliner set to have its deorbit burn 26 minutes 30 seconds from now touchdown 1 hour 9 minutes 25 seconds away will Boeing Starliner make it home it's time to watch and listen and see what happens we are waiting an update from Johnson Space Center and we're hoping for some live views of re-entry as well uh 26 minutes away that hatch has been closed up at the top of Starliner that was confirmed Clos about an hour ago and teams are ready to bring Starliner home let's listen in to Johnson Space Center this is Johnson Space Center and our coverage of Boeing's crew flight test I'm Brandy Dean with NASA and I'm Lauren breni with Boeing Starliner safely Departed the International Space Station and is on its way back to Earth Starliner is making its return autonomously tonight without Nas astronauts butw more and sunny Williams after a decision to return without crew was made during a flight test Readiness review last week but the team here in Michigan troll will be watching over star laner over the course of the next hour and a half as a spacecraft fires its engines to drop back into Earth's atmosphere and make its way down for a landing in New Mexico at about 11:00 p.m. central or midnight Eastern the team here is Led tonight by flight director Rick henling with weather assistance from flight director Mike Lamers hling is just under 7 minutes away from polling the flight controllers here in the room on their Readiness for Starliner to perform its deorbit burn at Starliner Landing Zone teams in Florida Houston and New Mexico have been monitoring the spacecraft mostly undocked from the International Space Station at 5:04 p.m. time while flying 260 miles over Central China NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and sunny Williams National Space Station in June is part of NASA's Boeing crew flight test a United launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from complex 31 at Cape canaval space force station in Florida that wasth they arrived at the International Space Station on June 6th during that June 6th Rendevous NASA and Boeing identified helium links and experienced issues with the Starliner reaction control thrusters as the spacecraft approached the space station since then engineering teams have completed a significant amount of work collecting and reviewing data conducting flight and ground testing hosting independent reviews with agency propulsion experts and developing various return contingency plans uncertainty and uh lack of expert concurrence did not meet the agency's safety and performance requirements for human space flight thus prompting NASA's decision to return Boeing Starliner spacecraft to Earth without the astronauts but schore and sunny Williams aboard the uncrewed return allows NASA to continue Gathering test data on Starliner during its up upcoming flight home while also not accepting additional risk for the crew Willmore and Williams meanwhile have uh formally joined the Expedition 7172 crew and are going to remain at the space station conducting science experiments and helping with maintenance through February 2025 they're going to fly home aboard a dragon spacecraft with two other crew members assigned to the agency's SpaceX crew9 mission that is NASA astronauts Nick Haag and Russ Cosmos Cosmonaut Alexander goranov on Thursday afternoon the hatches were closed between Starliner and the International Space Station and earlier today at 5:04 p.m. central the docking hooks released Starliner allowing it to separate to begin moving away from the space station and into place for its journey home you can see that uh video from earlier today playing here we saw a beautiful display of starliners thrusters there okay butore and SNY Williams also had some words to say for the teams here on the ground as Starliner was making its way away from the space station station Houston Space to ground two for Starliner undock status go ahead we're with you hey Sunny both the Starliner and ISS flight control teams have pulled go for undock at this time the expected undock time is 2204 okay copy 2204 hey you know we're just looking at the flight control roster and like wow it is the allstar team you guys it is the time to bring Calypso home you have got this where we have your backs and you've got this bring her back to Earth good luck sunny and Butch this is Chloe just on behalf of the entire Mo team and I know the other flight control teams around the building we thank you for your endless Support over the years we've enjoyed every training event and every meeting we remember every setback and every Revelation with you the teams on the ground have worked countless hours over the last few weeks months and for a group of us years to bring Calypso back and we're ready to do that today we wish you the best of luck in your increment and sunny I will make sure the right people have your Coming Home song ready to play on Space theg ground when it's time for you guys to come home good luck and thank you wonderful comment uh flight we appreciate that and we agree many years of uh great enjoyment um siming together uh playing together and being involved with each other's lives and it's been special um bring it home Cy thank you and have a good evening that again was uh a conversation recorded earlier today between uh astronauts Sunny Williams and Butch Wilmore talking with the Starliner flight director at the time of undocking Khloe miring since that undocking uh when Starliner and the space station were flying 260 Mi above Central China Starliner has been steadily increasing the distance between it and the space station ensuring that it will be able to get into Spa into place uh to perform a 107 Central deorbit burn now in about uh 20 minutes while it has been moving away the flat controllers here on the ground took the opportunity to perform a few test of starliners thrusters during the test the crew modules 12 small reaction control system thrusters one of the Jets didn't fire when commanded the reaction control system thrusters on the crew module are used to steer Starliner as it makes its way back down to earth after the uh service module has been jettisoned because those 12 jets are divided into two redundant strings of six Starliner only uses one string during normal operations so although this means a slight loss of redundancy it shouldn't keep Starliner from getting through re-entry and Landing as expected yeah and Starliner has plenty of redundancy with this part of the prop system on the capsule so no impact to the deorbit burn or re-entry and it's not required for flight rules the team also tested 10 of the 28 reaction control system jets in the service module after undocking and they all performed as expected and here on the ground the team just uh gave their go officially to Rick henfling today's flight director meaning that uh tonight's Landing of Starliner is on that again is scheduled to happen touchdown at uh 11:00 p.m. central time or midnight Eastern Time e e once again flight director Rick hling has gotten a go from starliners for star for starers deorbit burn from all of the flight controllers watching over the spacecraft's return tonight and that again means we are officially on for Starliner return to Earth at about 11:00 p.m. central time or midnight Eastern the dart burn at uh 10:17 p.m. central time is now just 17 minutes away that'll be a 59 second firing of four of Starliner orbital maneuvering and attitude control festers on Starliner service module and joining us live from Starliner Landing Zone with Whit Sands at Whit Sands space Harbor in New Mexico our colleagues Leah Chesire from NASA public affairs and Boeing's Josh Barrett Le and Josh how is it going out there thanks Brandy it is going well out here uh we are out here in White Sands the weather right now is about 75 degrees and very light winds approximately 6 miles hour uh this looks like potentially a picture from earlier today it is quite dark out here at this point we have a beautiful view of the stars and we are lined up in the clown boy getting ready to roll that's right Leah so I've been out here for both of Starliner previous Landings the first one was very cold the second one was quite warm and this one feels just about right uh we're following along with two command Vehicles we've got the mlcc or the mobile Landing control center uh they're tied in down in Mission Control in Houston with the people that you're seeing on your screen right now uh we also have the mdtv that's the mobile data and tracking vehicle and on top of that it's got a suite of Optics on top there's an infrared camera and two visible cameras one of them with a telescopic Focus so those will be the first things that we'll be seeing Starliner with here from The Landing Zone and you should be seeing those on your screens as well and Leah's got a few more things that she'll talk about that should get some cameras on Starliner as well yeah especially the WB 57 NASA plane that took off just a few hours ago uh just as we were heading out here to The Landing site so we arrived here at about 600 PM local time which is Mountain Time uh and since then have been getting ready lining up uh doing Communications checks between the various teams and just getting ready to eventually drive out to The Landing site once Starliner comes down so uh it is a sea of white gypsum sand out here um and teams are continuing to just prepare as soon as we get into that deorbit burn so they are actually in a h huddle right now talking through some of the next steps for tonight um getting ready to come and join us here in the Convoy as we await to see the deorbit burn so with that right now we are going to turn it back over to you Brandy and Lauren we are going to stick around though and cannot wait to see Starliner coming straight across the sky thank you thanks so much Leah and Josh we are hoping to get some good views from where you guys are at later today now once we make that final burn to get out of orbit today it'll take about 45 minutes for Starliner to reach its destination again white sand space Harbor New Mexico where we just spoke with our colleagues from Starliner is currently flying with its solar arrays pointed toward the gun recharging the internal batteries to keep its systems powered through Landing the orbital maneuvering and attitude control thrusters or what we call omx will fire for about a minute to conduct the deorbit burn that maneuver slows the spacecraft down from orbital velocities and allows it to start falling back to Earth in a head down position at the end of that deorbit burn Starliner angles itself for re-entry the deorbit burn is just the first in a series of Milestones we're going to be taking off tonight to give you the full rundown uh deorbit burn is scheduled for 10:17 p.m. central as uh as we said we just got the go for that a few minutes ago it's going to be followed by the separation of the crew module from the service module at 10:20 p.m. and the crew module will then continue on on its own at 10:45 p.m. Starliner will begin to fill the uh effects of the Earth's atmosphere again for the first time since it's asent in June and a few minutes later around 10:47 the heat from Star liner's reinjury will become so intense that the plas that plasma will begin uh to form around the spacecraft causing a blackout in Communications with Starliner for about 4 and a half minutes once Starliner clears that blackout period things will begin to happen very quickly yeah so then up next at 1056 when Starliner is about po 4.3 miles above Earth the spacecraft will be done with the forward heat shield that is at the top of the capsule that helped protect it through a re-entry and it will Medic in it to make way for the parachutes that are stored underneath and then almost immediately those parachutes will begin to deploy first with two smaller droke parachutes that are meant to take the edge off Starliner speed they open up in stages over the course of about 28 seconds and then at 10:57 p.m. when Starliner is about 6 miles up the drug parachutes are released and three main parachutes are deployed they also open in stages over about 16s seconds but they stay with the spacecraft all the way until touchdown and again we are expecting that touchdown to come at 11:00 p.m. central just before the touchdown however at 10:58 p.m. Starliner also sheds its based heat shield at the bottom of the capsule to make way for the inflation of six Landing airbags hidden underneath it and those will cushion the vehicle as it lands in New Mexico's desert it's probably worth mentioning that we do not have a video from Starliner if you think back to June on its ascent and journey to the International Space Station um it it's not able to send video down when it's not connected to the space station so we won't be getting INF flat views from it but we do have several cameras out at the Landing site as well as some aircraft in the area that we hoping to get some views from uh but of course it is going to be pretty dark out in the desert at night so um they may be infrared or black and white views um but hopefully we'll we'll get some some good uh camera views to show you and we're taking a live look now from The Landing site but uh the shot is quite dark at the moment you can see just a few lights blinking there uh hopefully as we get uh closer to the ground as Starliner gets closer down we will have some better shots e e the landing and Recovery teams have been out in the desert preparing for the spacecrafts return for several days I've been speaking with them to catch up on some of the preps that have been taking place they ran through a full mission dress rehearsal where they practice the landing and Recovery operation with all the different groups and functions and they've also been keeping a close eye on the wind direction to establish the best recovery zone out at wh Sands they've even sent up some weather balloons to check the wind speeds tracking Vehicles out there are equipped cameras uh so the team has been calibrating those and again although we don't expect any views from Starliner on its way down we're hoping to get some good ones from those tracking cameras as well as aircraft in the area we plan to have the WB 57 getting views while it is um about 16,000 ft above the ground until the drug parachutes uh deploy and then at about 6,000 ft um we hope to see views from a cessa in the area and this is actually a current view of the Cessna as it makes its way out to The Landing site white sand space Harbor in New Mexico and this is a shot from one of the ground cameras that we have on site so again although it is dark there we are hoping to to see um to see some good views and in the last few hours the teams there on the ground have have been at the holding area loading up their vehicles doing last minute checks making sure all the equipment is ready to go and then shortly they'll begin moving into place to watch Starliner make its Final Approach and then once Starliner lands teams will move closer in a very strategic way they will first stop at about the 500t mark away from the spacecraft and then they'll move in closer to the 150t mark while ground teams safe the vehicle that first team on site with Starliner will be what we call the gold team they start recovery operations by performing what's called a sniff test where they use sensors to check for hydrazine one of the propellants that uh Starliner uses they'll be wearing protective gear known as hazmat suits to prevent exposure to hypergolic propellants hydrazine is used as propellant and it if it turns into a vapor it can be toxic after the sift test they will notify the rest of the Convoy when it's safe to approach and then they're going to check the winds make sure the entire landing and recovery team is staged U range from the direction the wind is blowing for added protection now everyone out there is part of a different color team and they wear vest with that color so it's very obvious who does what so the next up is the silver team and their first job is to ground the spacecraft Starliner will be powered down but there could be some residual electricity so before anyone can touch it they will ground it and discharge it teams here on the ground reporting that um everything is getting into good configuration for the deorbit burn that's now just about um 6 and a half minutes away uh going on uh with the with what we were saying we also will have the blue team that documenting that documents everything that's going on at the Landing site these are photographers from both Boeing and NASA who have situational awareness cameras and again here's the uh current view of those teams all um ready to deploy at Landing yeah that's the holding site that we were mentioning and then of course you can see um the mountains there in the background in this black and white View and the Green Team hooks up the HVAC trailers to Starliner to get cooling on it but their first job is to put up an environmental enclosure on the spacecraft and that enclosure looks a lot like a big inflatable it wraps around the vehicle to get cool air around it and make sure the critical systems don't overheat then the red team opens the hatch that is mostly uh Boeing fire rescue they will back up the mobile access platform to Starliner hatch giving the team access and Starliner will be bringing back more than 900 pounds of cargo including a nitrogen oxygen recharge system or what we call noris tank that NASA um will service and refill for future space station needs the teams will unload that cargo before Starliner heads back to Florida just over five minutes to go now until tonight's uh 10:17 p.m. central Time deorbit Burn team here on the ground reports that Starliner has gotten into the right attitude uh kind of the right way it's pointing uh for that burn so everything is looking good we're on track for uh Landing at 11:00 p.m. central midnight Eastern with just a couple minutes or four minutes left to go until the deorbit burn we're going to check in once again with the landing team and Leah Cheshire and Josh Barrett thanks Brandy yeah we are out here uh just waiting in the Convoy area now most of the team is taking part in a safety briefing right now as we prepare to uh watch the deorbit burn and the re-entry and then move in toward the spacecraft like you mentioned it's really dark out here Josh and I were just able to take in the really beautiful site of uh the Milky Way it's so dark so once the capsule starts to reenter the Earth's atmosphere we expect we expect to have a pretty good view of the streak um as that plasma builds up around the capsule itself that's right we should be seeing it come just over the Southwest Horizon right through the saddle of kind of the mountains uh that are just overlooking the mountain range here and uh remembering back to of1 kind of the view that we should be having here is that we'll hear the Sonic booms as well after we see kind of that plasma envelope and then pretty quickly afterward it is pretty remarkable how quickly it does end up over our heads uh we'll see the flashes from uh the mortal ERS which deploy those uh Fort heat shield parachutes which take the the fort heat shield off um then we start hearing those mortors or those mortars and then the the uh parachutes start to deploy um and then it's kind of slow motion from there as it drifts down and we're seeing a lot of movement as teams have just completed that safety briefing here so they're now all walking to join us at the Convoy uh so it looks like we are just a few minutes away from the deorbit burn and the show is really getting on the road soon so with that we're going to turn it back over to you in Houston we are uh just over two minutes away from the deorbit burn at this point uh Starliner has moved well away from the International Space Station and quite a few kilometers ahead of it as well we had a number of uh smaller Burns to ensure that Starliner was at a safe distance away from the space station before it perms performs the deorbit burn that will bring it out of orbit and on its Journey back to Earth director Rick henfling and his team expect starliners orbital maneuvering attitude control thrusters also called omx to fire around 10:17 central time pushing the spacecraft out of its orbital flight path and onto its journey home this deorbit burn will set us up for a touchdown time of about 11:00 p.m. central or 1000 p.m. Mountain Daylight time out there in White Sands New Mexico once it's there control teams in Houston will begin powering off starliners radi at s and solar rays as the spacecraft now has enough power to get home and sublimator will be taking over cooling they use water to cool the cabin Starliner is also uh as we said now in the correct attitude for performing the deorbit burn and at this point the service module and crew capsule are still attached to each other four of the service modules 12 AF facing orbital maneuvering and attitude control engines are going to be powering the deor burn allowing them to separate safely and those engines are each 1500b thrusters meaning this burn will take about 6,000 lbs of thrust slowing Starliner from its current orbital velocity and bringing it back to Earth's atmosphere for a smooth Landing the small reaction control system or RCS thrusters assist here in holding Starliner in the correct attitude during this test flight our teams ran roughly a million computer mod model simulations showing all the different Thruster combinations possible for a safe return to Earth today just 20 seconds now until the burn starts it'll last uh 59 seconds and again you uh be firing those orbital maneuvering and attitude control thrusters four orbital maneuvering and attitude control thrusters on Star liner's service module are now firing slowing Starliner down is a capsule against its Journey back to Earth this will take about 59 seconds to complete we're hearing a good all good uh all thrusters firing well so far can see here those uh those representation of those thrusters firing Starliner maintaining its attitude and as those large orbital maneuvering thrusters are firing smaller reaction control system thrusters are also working keeping the spacecraft in the correct position for the burn still looking good and we did see the uh durber burn cut off successfully teams here on the ground reporting a good burn Starliner now on its way to wh sand space Harbor New Mexico and a planned touchdown at about 11:00 p.m. central midnight Eastern Time and if you're just joining us welcome here to the Launchpad with that confirmation Starliner is committed to re-entry the orbit burn having been conducted 2 minutes ago burning for 59 seconds has locked Starliner in on a return to White Sand space Harbor in New Mexico touchdown 39 minutes 30 seconds from now you're looking at a view into NASA's Johnson Space Center and on the center of your screen you can see those uh graphs that are currently being updated with the latest Telemetry of the trajectory it's coming in on on the far right side of your screen we do have the predicted path of re-entry with the times so if you do happen to be out in Mexico Baja California or New Mexico you may be able to see this otherwise very unlikely that you will uh but make sure if you do take a photo or video and send it in to us at TN official onx or Launchpad Network on Facebook or Instagram or via our Discord we're going to continue listening into Johnson mission control but we're answering your guys' comments and questions you can send those in the chat by taking us at the Launchpad and we'll work on answering those live many more things have to go right for Starliner to come home here tonight and we want to hear from you in the chat how do you think tonight's going to go perfect return and Landing a hard Landing does it technically land but in pieces or are we going to see a rud we are now committed to re-entry Starliner is coming home and let's see how the next 38 and A2 minutes play out as the crew flight test of Boeing Starliner comes to an end let's listen back into NASA and Boeing Mission Control 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 an entry interface is coming up in just about 10 minutes that's the hottest part of the re-entry process with Starliner heat shield reaching about 3,000 de to protect Starliner from those heat loads the spacecraft has what's called an ablative heat shield the outer surface of that Shield heats up to a gas which then carries the heat away from the crew module through convection and our team calls this process a game of Threes because during entry interface the heat shield will handle those temperatures of about 3,000 de but it will convert that heat to about 300° with only 3 in of a blader and because because of this protection during this hottest part of re-entry the inside of the spacecraft remains at about room temperature when Starliner returned from its last two flights the capsules landed with two black stripes up the sides indicating the heat shield was a bladed as intended so we do expect to see that again today and the team considers that a bit of a badge of honor e Rock e e once again uh we did see uh Starliner deorbit or uh performance deorbit burn on time at 10:17 p.m. central Time and then quickly turned around and jettisoned its surface module now that it has performed its Duty over the course of the mission we are still about uh 20 minutes away from entry interface but things will start to happen quickly after that about 4 minutes after we go into the entry interface the heat from starliners reentry will become so intense that the plasma will begin to form around the spacecraft causing a blackout in Communications with Starliner for about four and a half minutes and after that we'll see Starliner Starliner jettison its forward heat shield that's been protecting the parachutes during GRE entry then when starliners around 30,000 ft above the ground the spacecraft's parachute sequence will begin two drone par drogue parachutes rather will uh start slowing Starliner down and then they'll detach and three main parachutes will deploy and inflate at about 3,000 ft off the ground the base heat shield jettison exposing the airbags and then at touchdown those airbags absorb the initial force of Landing cushioning the spacecraft for a soft safe return to Earth e e currently Starliner is about 213 miles above the uh South Pacific Ocean it's just past the southernmost portion of this final orbit coming around the uh southern coast of Australia and now is going to begin making its way northward towards uh the west coast of the United States for that um landing at 11:00 p.m. central Time midnight eastern time at wh sand space Harbor in New Mexico go again we've had the deorbit burn that took place just as planned at 1017 a 59c burn that uh changed the uh Starliner speed by about uh 290 mph 130 m/ second that made way for the service module separation and the next Milestone we'll be watching for is the entry interface coming up around 10:45 still about 10 minutes away e live view here of the uh recovery forces staged uh near The Landing site ready to move in when Starliner touches down we are taking off Milestones as expected for that uh 11:00 p.m. central midnight Eastern or 10 p.m. mountain time touchdown today in New Mexico again Starliner performed its deorbit burn about 12 minutes ago the thrusters performed nominally and the flight home is going smooth e e we're still about uh 14 minutes away away from the entry interface which is our next Milestone I think I said earlier that we were 10 minutes away that was a mistake um but about 14 minutes from now we'll be experiencing the uh the atmosphere for the first time since star laner launched and since we do have a little time we're going to check back in with the landing team Le and Josh how are things going out there thanks Brandy yeah that was a great view of the uh Landing Convoy all lined up I was just watching some of the gold team members getting suit it up as you mentioned earlier that's going to be the first team to come in and inspect the vehicle they're sniffing for those um hyper gools or any of those dangerous skums before the rest of the teams get the go to move in and approach the capsule of course it's kind of a waiting game right now as we are still waiting to spot Starliner uh coming from the southwest so a lot of us are outside of the Convoy right now and keeping our eyes on the skies yeah that's right we're we've got about just under probably three dozen vehicles I all lined up and three row just waiting to get that touchdown signal again going through that Convoy list that you guys went through already so well behind that gold team after Starliner is declared safe the silver team moves in and they do the electrical grounding they'll also stabilize the vehicle just in case the airbags start deflating we make sure that the hatch has uh a good stable orientation for red team to come in and they're the ones with the hatch orientation uh and once uh the red team establishes hatch access actually the silver team has a fun job tonight in the dark they're going to go start looking for the pieces that came off of Starliner those heat shields uh some of those Lids from those those parachute mortars uh and then after that after red team has hatch access and opens up the hatch uh NASA's ISS program folks are going to come in for the Caro inspection so again we are expecting to start seeing Starliner coming across the Horizon around the time that entry interface begins but until then just wanted to give you guys a hit from The Landing site and the latest that we have going on here so we'll toss it back over to you in Mission Control Houston thanks so much Le and Josh we are watching for that entry interface as well we're now about uh 12 minutes away Starliner continuing to make good progress uh following at 10:17 p.m. central Time DOR orbit burn again we're looking at the landing and Recovery team set up at the holding Zone there at White Sands Josh and Leah are embedded with that Convoy and they will make a very strategic move toward the spacecraft after touchdown first stopping at about the 500 foot Mark and then they'll get the go to move forward to the 150t mark and then once the vehicle is considered safe they will move in with the new orbit burn complete and uh the service mod module separated the spacecraft's heat shield is now exposed and ready to begin experiencing the atmosphere again uh the Starliner is going to make some final attitude adjustments that keep that heat shield pointing at exactly the right angle and next step after that is entry interface again just coming up in a few minutes at 400,000 ft above Earth Starliner faces temperatures of 3,000 de fah from the plasma created by air friction around the spacecraft but Starliner can handle that heat with its heat shield which is made of an ablade of material designed to keep the inside of the spacecraft at about 70° few minutes later Starliner will experience an expected blackout in Communications and that will last for about 4 and a half minutes minutes at 30,000 ft in just 11 minutes before landing Starliner jettison its forward heat shield exposing the spacecraft's parachute system then two drog shoots will deploy in increasing drag and significantly slowing down Starliner then three pilot parachutes will pull out the main shoots allowing the spacecraft to continue its slow and steady descent for another 8,000 ft towards the landing Zone and once the main parachutes are fully inflated Starliner bucket handle releases and what that does is it just basically levels out the spacecraft ahead of touchdown and then the base heat shield that protected Starliner through re-entry will separate at about 3,000 ft uncovering The Landing airbags those airbags of course will fill with nitrogen allowing for Starliner to land softly and safely there in the sand less than 10 minutes to go now before we do get to that entry interface point and uh now just 20 24 and a half minutes away from The Landing at wh sand space Harbor everything's pretty quiet in the room which is a good sign things are continuing to go smoothly as Starliner begins making it way making its way back to Earth you're taking a look there at flight directors Rick henfling on the left speaking with Mike Lamers on the right Rick is the flight director for this Landing operation Mike is weather flight director they are tag teaming this operation team has been keeping a close eye on weather at the Landing site but everything uh looks pretty good for tonight's touchdown yeah about 79° Fahrenheit out there they reported 10 miles visibility the winds are within the limits so we are looking good for a touchdown coming up right about 11:00 p.m. Central Time e 7 minutes to go now in entry interface and then uh that intense heating will start about 2 minutes after we do begin the interface that'll last about 4 and a half minutes during which time we'll be in a black out starlander is currently about 130 miles 149 miles rather above uh the Pacific Ocean heading northward towards the western coast of the United States and it's touchdown in New Mexico we're taking a look here at the Landing trajectory there on the left of your screen you can see that line that crosses over the Baja Peninsula and that is the track start car liner will take as it makes its way into New Mexico as it gets closer to the ground people living in the area might get um a bright shot of Starliner coming back through the atmosphere and Landing there in White Sands New Mexico you can also see there in the center of the screen the uh to-do list basically before before we do get to Landing the service module separation highlighted in green because that one's already taken place and next up is the entry interface about 5 minutes away from now and flight controllers here in the room are reporting good attitude for that entry interface coming up again in just under 5 minutes e and if you're just joining us you are looking at a live view of wh sand space Harbor and the recovery teams awaiting Boeing Starliner as it's set to have atmospheric interface and begin the final part of its re-entry we're just minutes away from that communication blackout beginning and the plasma buildup around Starliner officially bringing it back into the Earth's atmosphere if it's your first time here though welcome my name is Zach I'm the founder and host here at the Launchpad Network and here at TP it's our mission to inform and Inspire the Explorers of tomorrow cuz we believe that space is better together Starliner launched with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and sunny Williams 93 Days 12 hours 51 minutes ago for an 8-day mission to the International Space Station after 93 days Starliner has Departed the space station but the crew remains on board Butch and sunny will now become part of crew 9 coming home in February of 2025 crew 9 set to launch in a couple of weeks from now with only two astronauts on board leaving room for Butch and sunny we've been live bringing you full coverage all the way from prior to ISS undock through the deorbit burn and now here we are ready for atmospheric interface and touchdown of the Boeing Starliner if you haven't yet take a moment engage that like button share out the stream again even if you have invite people back and join us as this is normally the most beautiful part of watching a capsule come home but also the scariest part does it make it through re-entry the most dangerous part really of most of these missions is coming back to Earth and fighting through the Earth's atmosphere we're going to listen back into NASA Johnson mission control and the teams down at wh sand space Harbor as we prepare for communication blackout at star with Starliner as it begins its 7 Minutes of re-entry as it heads back down to earth after 93 days in space you can keep sending in your questions in the chat by taking us at the Launchpad we'll work on answering those live and I'll answer more on commentary following touchdown but godspeed starlighter come home for less than a minute now until we begin uh entry interface again about 2 minutes after entry interface starts we'll begin seeing the heating uh really get intense and we'll go into a 4 and a half minute blackout you team here in the ground reporting entry interface has begun they're seeing good range seeing another view from the uh Landing site or the the team's uh getting ready to move out to The Landing site here a little B idea from this view of exactly how dark it is out there with all the lights of the vehicle Shining a minute and a half until we move into the blackout period for Starliner and 14 and a half minutes until we land in wh Sands New Mexico the star lanter enters Earth's atmosphere at 17 times the speed of sound which could create a Sonic Boom for folks living in the area it will then be slowed down by parachutes to a speed very similar to what you might experience while going down an elevator inside a high-rise building the vehicle then comes to a safe comfortable stop at Landing 30 seconds now until the uh blackout period begin due to the compression of friction and friction of the air the molecules generate a very hot plasma that uh causes the red orange glow you often see appear in postflight imagery on Min spacecraft although we won't get to see that tonight uh it will happen causes an expected communication Dropout this one will last 4 and A2 minutes as the vehicle uh goes through a time when plasma interferes with a satellite signal we expect that blank out to end around 10:52 p.m. central this is also the time that I mentioned earlier where a Starliner in the past two flights has gotten that black um Mark along the sides of it and that just really proves team that the ablative heat shield or the ablative material um around Starliner is is doing its job and the heat shield is pushing that plasma away it's blackout time again uh last about 4 and 1/2 minutes we've got uh about 3 and 1/2 left of it after that uh the uh Milestones will'll be watching for include uh Ford heat shield jettison at 1056 when Starliner is about 4.3 mil above the Earth very soon after that uh almost immediately drug shoots deploy those uh give the give a little bit of an initial slowdown to the vehicle before the really U large main parachutes deploy that happens when the Starliner is about 2 and a half miles above the Earth e e every 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 we are now less than 10 minutes away from landing at wh Sands space Harbor scheduled for uh 10 or 11:00 p.m. central also uh getting reports that the WB 57 is also able to see Starliner now as it begins coming in for its uh for its Landing we've still got just just about a minute left to go before Starliner comes out of its uh blackout period and this is a view from the wb-57 one of NASA's aircraft that is uh at the uh Landing site has been uh been uh staged and ready to pick Starliner or pick up the view of Starliner as it comes in and that is what we are seeing now and they're filming this video from about 16,000 ft the bb57 should continue to uh give a view until the drog parachutes deploy and then we hope to pick it up with the Cessna that is also in the area and flight controllers here in the room are reporting that we are out of that blackout period and everything is looking good Starliner remaining nominal as she returns to earth again this is a view from the WB 57 Starliner showing a beautiful streak across the sky as she returns to White Sands New Mexico we're about 3 minutes away from the forward heat shield jetsin that's the next Milestone we're looking for Starliner is currently about 27 miles above the earth and the team at uh White Sands reporting that they have seen it we got a tally hole from them uh reported uh remotely that means they are seeing Starliner from the ground there in New Mexico this view is coming from the Cessna that's also in the area picking up uh star now Starliner now from its lower altitude about 6,000 ft above whereas the WB 57 is about 16,000 ft up we are now just uh 6 minutes and 22 seconds away from Landing we should also just be a couple minutes away from the forward heat till jettison which will bring on the drog parachute deploy followed by the main parachutes and the strobe lights on Starliner are now on Starliner is now over the landing site and that strob flight will help the teams actually track Starliner on the ground because it is very dark out there now about 12 miles above uh The Landing site and just 5 minutes away from Landing watching now for the forward heat shield Jenison that should be coming up uh again making way from for the parachute deployment all right and that action you're seeing in 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 get to a uh a safe uh speed for the enormous main parachutes to to follow about four minutes to go until touchdown now back to A View From the Cessna aircraft in the uh vicinity of the landing site again this is a A View From a little lower than the WB 57 we were seeing the next thing we're going to see here is the three main parachutes come out and everything will happen pretty quickly from that point on after those Mains are out we'll see the uh bottom heat shield that has been protecting uh Starliner through its journey through the atmosphere come off that makes way 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 you can see Starliner in a slight tilt so we're going to see the rotation handle move here shortly and it will level out Starliner but three good parachutes looking great just a little over two minutes until the expected Landing time and we heard the rotational handle has been released so you can see that uh tilt even 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 just a beautiful sight as Starliner makes its way to the Sands of New Mexico and flight controllers confirming six good airbags view still coming to us from the Cessna we've got got uh about just about a minute left to go until the expected touchdown be watching for that time for you just about 15 seconds away from expected touchdown you're seeing the ground there in your screen as we get closer 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 Whit 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 one of the changes uh required with no crew on board is that the team here in the flight control room will be the ones to uh command the uh parachute uh to be cut away so that uh the wind doesn't pull the capsule along but uh that's no problem for them so uh now with the with Starliner down they can begin working on some of the post Landing to-do items again uh we saw Starliner touchdown at 11:01 p.m. central Time that's uh 1 minute after midnight eastern Time or 10:01 p.m. central at the Landing site in New Mexico This Is A View From the Cessna still watching the drones slowly make their own way down uh those of course are the uh the drog parachutes that uh preceded the main parachutes uh first slowing Starliner down before the the large parachutes opened and really just a Flawless and beautiful Descent of Starliner today even heard some cheers and clapping in the background and some amazing views from White Sands space Harbor in New Mexico both Starliner Calypso welcome back to Earth 93 days after launching left its crew on board the station but Calypso did it and has successfully landed at White Sands in New Mexico there it looked like a really great landing we're watching these Dro shoots now come down as Crews prepare to approach the Starliner spacecraft we're not too sure how long NASA will stay live on this but congratulations boing on bringing Calypso home and it looked like it was a beautiful ride back of course teams are going to have to evaluate a lot and there'll be lots of more news coming around Starliner over the weeks and months to come and you can catch that all right here on the Launchpad if it was your first time here welcome my name is Zach I'm the founder and host here at the Launchpad here at TLP it's our mission of to inform and Inspire the explorers of tomorrow because we believe that space is better together we just moved down here to the Space Coast to bring you full coverage as we get ready to begin countdown to launch coverage for aremis 2 there's so many more launches coming up the rest of this year we got Vulcan new Glenn Falcon 9 Falcon 9 crew Falcon heavy we've got Starship we've got pslv we've got soy we've got electron we've got h2a we've got H3 electron haste and who knows what else we're going to throw in there by the end of the year and we hope that you will join us here at the Launchpad as your live launch provider we're going to listen back into NASA Johnson for the remainder of this show of course we do have our countdown to launch coverage for Polaris Dawn running stay up to date on the latest developments for Polaris Dawn over on our live broadcast for that currently counting 51 hours and counting till launch targeting 3:38 a.m. Monday morning we'll be there live on site but let's listen back into NASA Johnson Space Center and the Boeing recovery Crews as they get ready to approach Calypso Starliner Calypso stay with us shot but there is a strobe light on Starliner that will help the teams follow it out there and the uh recovery team is on the move but I think uh Leah Cheshire and Josh Barrett our colleagues out there may be able to give us one last update Leah and Josh can you hear us great landing of calypso I don't think there could birthday um obviously we did have really a great show we were able to see the cameras that you were watching too from the WB 57 from the Cessna from the International Space Station but can I interrupt you yes concur it's been a really amazing day we were hearing a bit from space to ground there uh but I think they've concluded unfortunately uh we'll see if we can get a recording of that for uh folks uh listening at home but Leah go ahead with your update yeah sorry about that couldn't hear that one here so uh but Sunny uh MC here Rick just wanted to offer that he's got one more hour herey it's his birthday here yeah and that's what counts yeah it was a it was a good Landing it's pretty awesome you guys are are the best you are the best thank you Sunny Williams there uh offering a a slightly early happy birthday to flight director Rick hling he will be uh celebrating his birthday on September 7th but technically in Houston we're still a little less than an hour away from that uh they are of course already um on uh uh September 7th in at the International Space Station but Leah if you were still with us we will still take that update if you can give it to us yes so as I was saying we got to see the capsule and the plasma Trail coming up over the mountains uh from the southwest and uh we were all still standing outside the Convoy to watch that happen but the most unexpected part was when I could hear the main parachutes being deployed it was very Fain just a little bit of a rumble um but that strob light really helped us identify Starliner as it was descending and it would reflect a little bit up onto those parachutes so we actually had a decent view as it was coming down under those shoots and now we are uh actually on the drive out and we can see the strobe light it's giving us a great direction as we head toward the capsule yeah that's right we are actually making our way down the uh former space shuttle Runway uh literally driving right down the middle of it uh Starliner is a little bit towards the southern end so we see that strobe uh kind of in the in the distance there um but we will make our way to the 500 foot Mark where go team will will move in and begin their assessments and then uh once they declare that uh operations proximity operations can begin uh the recovery Ops will really get under way and with that I think uh we were gonna toss it back to you Brandy and Lauren if you don't hear it from us again tonight just wanted to say thanks for uh letting us be part of the broadcast and give you the perspective of all the hardworking ground teams both NASA and Boeing out here at wh Sands in New Mexico so with that sending it back over to michig patol Houston thanks so much Josh and Leah it's great to see Star ler home and uh I I envy you the up close view but we appreciate your updates I do too starer Starliner has returned safely well done to the entire team for completing the mission with a successful undocking deorbit and Landing Starliner has once again proven herself a safe ride to and from space on behalf of the entire Boeing team welcome home calypso and with that we will also wrap up our coverage tonight um we would like for you to stay tuned for our 12 uh30 a.m. post Landing news conference that is uh 12:30 a.m. Central Time so about an hour and a half a little less than an hour and a half from now when we'll be giving you uh final uh final thoughts on um the activities of the night but Starliner is Home Again The Landing came at 11:01 p.m. central Time and with that we will sign off thank you so much for following along with us this is michig control Houston and with that Boeing Starliner Calypso is home if it was your first time here on the Launchpad Network welcome my name is Zach I'm the founder and host here we're broadcasting from our TP Space Coast HQ and Studio make sure you engage that subscribe button to stay up to date on the latest launch coverage space news updates and exclusive one-on-one interviews looking at the launch schedule ahead we've got Polaris Dawn launching on a historic mission on Monday we have a radar 8 launch on an H2 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complete we still got to get the crew home but they're coming home on crew 9 that's going to do it for us from our TLP space Co Studio we will see you next time because space is better together welcome home Calypso good night