You astronauts Butch Wilmore, 61, and Suni Williams, 58, showed this Saturday (8) the interior of the spacecraft Starliner from Boeing, in a live on YouTube from NASA (United States Space Agency).
The vehicle was launched with two crew members this Wednesday (5) and arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) this Thursday (6). In the video, travelers show the panel and occupations of the rocket that will be docked in orbit for a week.
“Today is Saturday, so as you can see, we have a vacuum cleaner here. As most people clean the house, we have to clean the ISS”, reported Wilmore on live, showing the cleaning instruments that the space station residents were using to clean.
In the video Suni Williams gives an account of the tests that the astronauts carried out in the first days in space, when they took manual control of the ship as they approached the ISS. “Everything is fantastic. The spacecraft is doing very well, even better than the simulator, and it has been a positive event from start to finish,” commented Wilmore.
Boeing’s first manned flight aims to validate the transportation system, launch platform, rocket, spacecraft, in-orbit operations capabilities and return to Earth with passengers on board.
Known as the Crew Flight Test, the Starliner represents the culmination of the company’s efforts to develop a vehicle capable of rivaling SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule and expanding the United States’ options for taking astronauts to space. International Space Station under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
Source: CNN Brasil
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