actually test flight number three of a series of test flights we use the term operational flight but for us who are pilots, every flight to test flight until, till we feel the vehicle has certified? yes. thank you. i m so glad that you re here with me. prepare yourself for many moments of confusion from me while i ask you these questions here s the next one we ve just is not you re not unusual at all. we always want to make the public feel really good. so we stopped using the term tests. but for those of us who are flying, we actually realize that we re testing well into a program. and every time we change the config configuration of a vehicle, which will happen to starliner. just as it s already happened to the crew dragon. that s another test flight to verify that new who configuration. but i hear you, charles, i understand why test the word test is more anxiety provoking, than calling it something different. i guess. i understand why you re saying that about trying to make sur
so charles, what does this mean for the astronauts on board right now for, for, for bucha and sonny, what are they doing there? they re disappointed, but they have they have a board are not a board, but they have checks that they have to do so. there are systems that they have to save in the vehicle itself. as you go through the countdown if i can relate this to shuttle, because again, i want to make sure everybody understands. i don t nothing about starliner but it s a spacecraft and most spacecraft are similar in nature starliner is in many ways very similar to the shuttle in terms of systems the way the crew enter or exit. this is a pilots spacecraft. it s it s gotta hand controllers, it s not a, it s not a push button. do everything on the screen like like the like the crew dragon so my guess is there are a lot of systems, so they will have to safe systems that were set in the position of being ready to ready for a launch and that stuff that butch and sunny
nasa s golden prime contract tractor for so many years during the shuttle program, was going to beat spacex s crew dragon to flying astronauts to the international space station. so many nasa astronauts back then wanted to be assigned the boeing missions, not spacex, that clearly turned out to be dead wrong. i mean, since then, spacex s flown 13 crewed missions to the international space hey, station, boeing starliner, still has yet to get off the ground. so yes not what boeing wanted, but this could not be a boeing issue, right? i mean, the rocket itself that propels the boeing starliner spacecraft into space is designed by a different company, the united launch alliance. and that first scrub back in may was caused by an issue with the rocket, not boeing s starliner spacecraft. so yes it s a setback for boeing, but it s also potentially not even boeing s fault here. now granted, they ve had tons of technical and other issues and engineering problems along the
so rare. there have only been six in us history, mercury gemini apollo, the space shuttle spacex crew, dragon bagging, and now boeing starliner. so to be one of the two astronauts selected for this mission is a huge honore. nasa only selects it s top astronauts for this hi is it is so risky, it is so dangerous, no humans have ever been inside of this spacecraft as it goes all the way up into outer space for this mission, they selected the commander, butch wilmore he s a navy test pilot, been a nasa astronauts since 2000, logged 178 days space force spacewalks from tennessee, just an all-around really nice guy. he s also a pastor at his local church. and then the pilot but is sunny williams. she s also a navy test pilot selected as an astronaut and 98 she was she is she is about to become in just a few minutes now the first one woman on a crude crewed test flight,
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