Boeing: CST-100 Starliner space capsule landed in New Mexico

The unmanned space capsule Starliner of Boeing Co returned from him International Space Station (ISS) and landed yesterday in New Mexicocompleting one crucial test flight for NASAabout the next spacecraft to transport astronauts into orbit.

Less than a week after its launch from the US Space Force Base in Cape Canaveral, Floridathe CST-100 Starliner space capsule entered Earth’s atmosphere last night, before its slow descent, with the help of a parachute and its landing in the White Sands spacecraft in New Mexico.

Her landing took place at 01:49 in the early hours of Greek time.

The return trip from the ISS lasted almost five hoursas it orbits 402 kilometers above the ground, while it was the last leg of the test flight that the Boeing had tried for the first time in 2019but had not been able to complete it after successive board software failures.

The successful test flight drives the Starliner space capsule, stigmatized by time delays and mechanical failures, one step closer to providing NASA with a second reliable solution for transporting astronauts to and from the International Space Station.

At the moment we are in the ISS there is a space crew consisting of three American astronauts from NASA, an Italian astronaut from the European Space Agency, but also three Russian cosmonauts. After connecting the Starliner to the International Space Station, some of these astronauts boarded inside the capsule, analyzing the conditions inside.