UPDATED @ 3:20 PM EDT -- I only caught the tail end of the call, but here is CNBC on it all -- looks like several more weeks, at ISS for Butch and Suni:
. . .Boeing’s Starliner capsule “Calypso” will stay at the International Space Station into next month while the company and NASA conduct new testing back on the ground. Boeing’s crew flight test represents the first time Starliner is carrying people, flying NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.[End updates.]
Officials say the Starliner team is starting a test campaign of the spacecraft’s thruster technology at White Sands, New Mexico – testing that will be completed before Starliner returns to Earth.
“We think the testing could take a couple of weeks. We’re trying to replicate the inflight conditions as best we can on the ground,” NASA’s Commercial Crew manager Steve Stich said during a press conference. . . .
I'll tune in, but for whatever reason, it will not be a NASA-TV video/audio feed. At least by my lights, that is slightly. . . disconcerting. Disconcerting, because it seems a little last minute. We will keep you apprised -- here's the bit:
. . .Leadership from NASA’s International Space Station and Commercial Crew Programs, as well as Boeing, will participate in a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT on Friday, June 28. Expected topics include Boeing’s Starliner Crew Flight Test, U.S. deorbit vehicle, station operations, and spacesuits. . . .
Yes — Mr. Biden is occasionally… grandfather-like. Duly noted. But he is steady. And he will listen to, and heed. . . good advice [not so, the other guy].
I certainly hope most intelligent, educated Americans see through the lying bluster -- and are smarter than this.
[Update: Chevron deference is no more. That is bad news for. . . progress in America, but Roberts does limit his rhetoric, saying only that courts handle ambiguous statutes -- not agencies, as a matter of first right.]
Onward.
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