Recovering from its failure to reach the orbit required to dock with the International Space Station, Boeing’s Starliner astronaut spacecraft made a successful ‘bulls-eye’ landing in New Mexico
) Starliner astronaut spacecraft made a “bull’s-eye” landing in the New Mexico desert on Sunday, a successful ending to a crewless test mission that two days earlier failed to reach the orbit needed to dock with the International Space Station.
Officials from the aerospace company and NASA breathed sighs of relief following the landing, a highly challenging feat. “We’re going to get I think a lot more data than we would have gotten if the test had gone according to plan,” NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said. The Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft, which had been launched on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, is seen after its descent by parachute following an abbreviated Orbital Flight Test for NASA’s Commercial Crew programs in White Sands, New Mexico, U.S. December 22, 2019. NASA/Bill Ingalls via REUTERS
The parachute deployment, one of the most challenging procedures under the program to develop a commercial manned space capsule, earned Boeing a win after a previous mishap where one parachute failed to deploy during a November test of Starliner’s abort thrusters.
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