1 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:10,960 UFO warning UFO warning UFO warning UFO warning UFO warning 2 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:14,480 UFO warning UFO. Hello and welcome to the program 3 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:16,800 UFO Morning. In this episode, we're talking 4 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:19,280 about astronauts stuck on space station. 5 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:22,280 That's correct, astronauts stuck on space station. 6 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:25,400 Now this article comes from yahoo.com, written by Ian 7 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:27,200 Whitaker, Senior Lecturer in Physics. 8 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:30,280 It says Nottingham Trent University, dated July 15th, 9 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:33,480 2024. Title says astronauts are stuck 10 00:00:33,480 --> 00:00:36,760 on the International Space Station after yet more problems 11 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:38,600 with Boeing's beleaguered Starliner. 12 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:41,560 If you've been following the news lately, you know that been 13 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:43,880 a lot of issues with Boeing. Some pretty scary stuff going on 14 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:45,680 there. It seems like for the past few 15 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:49,840 weeks, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and SUNY Williams have 16 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:52,920 been stuck on the International Space Station after the first 17 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:56,960 crude voyage of Boeing's new Starliner spacecraft hit a snag. 18 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:01,320 Concerns raised by Boeing and NASA over thruster problems and 19 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:04,040 several helium leaks. Helium is used in Starliner's 20 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:08,160 engine system have prevented the craft from making the return 21 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:11,280 journey is scheduled. NASA has now said the astronauts 22 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:14,760 may have to stay put until the next scheduled crew switch over 23 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:17,240 in August, potentially on another ship. 24 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:20,520 I don't know, maybe they made the Russians so angry they won't 25 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:22,720 go up and get him anymore. That's some scary stuff. 26 00:01:22,960 --> 00:01:26,440 Boeing and NASA are trying to put a positive spin on the 27 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:29,560 extension by saying they are testing systems required for 28 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:33,040 longer Starliner missions, but the project has already suffered 29 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:36,360 several delays, having originally been set to lift off 30 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:39,120 for the first time with crew in 2017. 31 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:42,200 This, combined with the latest problems, raises questions over 32 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:45,600 the whole Starliner program. I just bring this, I bring this 33 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:52,280 story up, not so much because it deals directly with UFOs, but as 34 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:55,920 someone that follows UFO phenomena, it's frequently NASA. 35 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:58,520 The one that's telling us, oh, you didn't see anything? 36 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:01,120 We don't have pictures of this, but we don't have pictures of 37 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:03,480 that. It wasn't a UFO. 38 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:07,560 I mean, they seem to be the ones that pose so much opposition to 39 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:10,720 people that are curious about UFOs, yet it looks like here 40 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:13,680 they're having a hard time even getting astronauts on and off 41 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:15,360 the space station. Now they're telling us that 42 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:18,440 they're the experts, but they've got astronauts stuck on the 43 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:21,480 space station station that they can't get down right now. 44 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:24,600 It says Starliner was noted as having a small helium leak 45 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:27,480 before it even launched. Helium is an inert gas, much 46 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:31,480 like neon or Exxon, meaning that it is very unreactive with other 47 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:34,040 materials. This makes it ideal when coming 48 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:36,920 into contact with rocket fuel and high temperatures. 49 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:40,680 Although producing it is an expensive process, it is 50 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:43,640 pressurized and used to push fuel into the engines at the 51 00:02:43,640 --> 00:02:46,440 correct rate. Helium leaks can mean that not 52 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:48,720 enough fuel will reach a thruster. 53 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:50,240 They're talking about producing this stuff. 54 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:53,200 I remember a few years ago when the helium prices just 55 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:55,040 skyrocketed. I haven't really looked into 56 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:56,200 that. You have to wonder who's 57 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:57,840 manipulating the prices on that stuff. 58 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:01,280 The leak spotted while Starliner was on the launchpad was 59 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:05,080 determined to be negligible and the spacecraft was sent to orbit 60 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:06,880 regardless. That's your government. 61 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:10,800 The leak spotted while Starliner was on the launchpad was 62 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:14,920 determined to be negligible, and the spacecraft was sent into 63 00:03:14,920 --> 00:03:17,320 orbit. I wonder if it was determined to 64 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:20,440 be negligible by the people that were going to be riding on it, 65 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:25,520 by actual engineers, or by somebody sitting behind a desk 66 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:27,760 somewhere. However, this turned into a 67 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:30,880 larger problem when additional healing leaks were identified 68 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:34,480 following launch, meaning that several of the spacecraft's 69 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:37,280 small maneuvering thrusters couldn't be used. 70 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:40,800 Isn't that awesome? You're on a you're on this tin 71 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:44,000 Canyon to space, and suddenly several of the thrusters that 72 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:46,560 you depend on to steer your ship can't be used. 73 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:48,840 It's just incompetence. We see it everywhere in the 74 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:50,280 government. I, I've talked about this 75 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:52,960 program before, many years ago in one of my NBA classes, We 76 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:55,440 were dealing with the subject of failure analysis. 77 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:59,480 And that was before the 2nd shuttle disaster. 78 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:02,920 And we went through the whole, the whole report on the launch 79 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:06,480 sequence and all that and how of course, tragically that that 80 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:08,920 craft blew up, taking the lives of all those astronauts. 81 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:11,800 And we also studied the responses of NASA, how the whole 82 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:14,360 thing happened. From what I could see was the 83 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:18,160 engineers had warned about the dangers because they basically 84 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:21,440 explained to them, the management that the O rings was 85 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:24,240 the order of those. That they weren't designed to 86 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:25,720 operate in that colder temperature. 87 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:28,320 And that if they went ahead and launched the rocket because it 88 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:31,400 was too cold out, that the fuel could get by the oil rings and 89 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:34,040 that could cause a, a catastrophic explosion, which of 90 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:36,400 course it did. And management response was just 91 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:39,440 kind of like, well, you know, too bad, so sad we got to launch 92 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:41,560 this thing. My whole contention was that 93 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:45,240 these decisions were being made qualitatively and not 94 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:48,040 quantitatively. They're being made based on the 95 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:50,800 emotions of of management that hey, we've got to do this as 96 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:54,080 opposed on the critical analysis and a critical thinking of the 97 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:56,600 actual engineers. When the professor asked me what 98 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:58,320 do you think is going to happen, I said they're going to blow up 99 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:01,120 another space shuttle. Well, I'm shocked. 100 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:03,080 Well, guess what happened a few years later, another space 101 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:05,040 shuttle got blown up. More mismanagement in my 102 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:06,840 opinion. And you can go in to look into 103 00:05:06,840 --> 00:05:08,680 all the things that happened there, with the tiles falling 104 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:12,040 off, people warning about it, and actions that should have 105 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:13,800 been taken not being allowed to be taken. 106 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:16,960 And so with this group of people who just think they know 107 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:20,160 everything, they're so smart, they send up a craft with a leak 108 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:21,600 in it because they think it's going to be OK. 109 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:25,320 They're just going to wing it. When they tell me that UFOs 110 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:28,920 don't exist or I shouldn't believe my lying eyes, I don't. 111 00:05:29,280 --> 00:05:33,000 I don't, I don't bend down to their authority, OK? 112 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:35,040 They are not an authority figure to me. 113 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:36,400 That's why I'm reading this article. 114 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:37,680 I'm telling you here we have NASA. 115 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:41,640 They've had two major tragedies that by all accounts could have 116 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:44,600 and should have been prevented. My opinion, it looks like 117 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:47,360 managerial incompetence. Just this arrogant idea that we 118 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:48,920 don't have to listen to the engineers. 119 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:50,520 We're we're we're going to do it our own way. 120 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:53,360 And you just follow the science. Well, they're not following the 121 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:55,800 science. They're following what they want 122 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:58,200 to do, their own opinions. Anyway, goes on this article 123 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:01,320 that says an inability to adjust the orientation of the craft or 124 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:04,520 the orbital perimeters of the reentry could, in the worst case 125 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:08,240 scenario, result in massive heat buildup and the destruction of a 126 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:10,480 spacecraft with two astronauts on board. 127 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:11,680 Yeah, but we're going to wing it. 128 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:13,080 We're going to launch that baby anyway. 129 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:15,720 There are additional thrusters and other so-called 130 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:19,920 redundancies, backup systems designed into the spacecraft. 131 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:22,240 So this is a very unlikely scenario. 132 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:25,280 Yeah, until it happens. However, so were the helium 133 00:06:25,280 --> 00:06:27,160 leaks. While Boeing and NASA have 134 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:30,440 considered it safe to return on Starliner, it's perfectly 135 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:34,160 conceivable that the astronauts might have some trepidation and 136 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:38,040 anxiety, especially as these issues did not occur with the 137 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:41,280 uncrewed test flights. Yet it's always the people that 138 00:06:41,280 --> 00:06:44,160 are on the ground that are eager to get you off the ground. 139 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:47,800 The next particular problem is that Starliner returns and 140 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:51,320 jettisons its service module on re entry as it returns to the 141 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:55,840 surface on land rather than at sea like Russian spacecraft 142 00:06:55,840 --> 00:06:59,400 Soyuz did and the SpaceX Dragon capsules still do. 143 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:03,440 This means that the bit of the spacecraft with all the vital 144 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:07,280 information on will be burned up, making it very difficult to 145 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:09,680 determine what actually went wrong. 146 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:12,720 Currently, ground tests are being run by NASA and 147 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:16,280 investigations are being conducted on the ISS to gather 148 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:19,000 as much information as possible before the return. 149 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:22,800 The astronauts made it up to the ISS and are safe there. 150 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:26,080 While it is likely that Starliner will return to Earth 151 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:29,040 should a major fault be discovered while it is docked to 152 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:32,720 the ISS, there are other return vehicles that can be used to 153 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:34,840 ferry the two crew members back home. 154 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:39,480 The astronauts safety will no doubt be paramount in the minds 155 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:42,560 of both the agency and industry. Yeah, that's why they set him up 156 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:44,360 there in the 1st place with the leaky spacecraft. 157 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:46,960 But this is not the first problem with Starliner. 158 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:50,640 The vehicle has suffered from major delays since conception as 159 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:53,640 part of the commercial crew program in 2010. 160 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:56,960 The contract indicated that Starliner should be ready by 161 00:07:56,960 --> 00:08:02,200 2017, with a two year delay before the 1st successful 162 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:06,000 unmanned launch in 2022. There was a failed attempt in 163 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:09,160 2019. The main crew launch was then 164 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:12,000 delayed by a month. These delays indicate that 165 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:14,840 Boeing is falling behind its main commercial competitor, 166 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:19,440 SpaceX, which won a contract at the same time as Boeing in 2010 167 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:22,960 to build vehicles that could transport crew to the ISS. 168 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:28,160 SpaceX was successfully launched a crew mission with the Dragon 169 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:31,720 capsule in 2020 to give an indication of the success. 170 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:35,240 Crew Dragon is currently completing its 5th manned 171 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:40,039 mission to the ISS and has also completed 30 cargo missions, but 172 00:08:40,039 --> 00:08:41,600 I can tell you which one I'd rather be on. 173 00:08:42,039 --> 00:08:45,560 Boeing has been a major player in ACE missions with NASA for 174 00:08:45,560 --> 00:08:48,800 decades, laying a major role in the Space Shuttle program, for 175 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:51,640 example. This relationship continues with 176 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:55,200 the company's role in the Space Launch System rocket that will 177 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:56,880 send astronauts on their way to the moon. 178 00:08:56,880 --> 00:09:00,120 The company has been one of the biggest and most admired 179 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:02,240 contractors in the aerospace industry. 180 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:07,160 Yeah, until recently maybe, I don't know, will started falling 181 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:08,880 off of airplanes. Maybe. 182 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:13,000 However, the problem with the Starliner come not long after a 183 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:15,760 widely publicized incidents with Boeing aircraft. 184 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:19,160 So the corporation could do without any further problems 185 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:22,240 with its crude spacecraft to add to its woes. 186 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:24,720 Yeah, I think when they're talking about further problems 187 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:28,920 with its crude aircraft, they're talking about wheels falling off 188 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:34,440 on takeoff, maybe doors getting sucked off of airplanes mid 189 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:36,480 flight, I don't know. Just a thought. 190 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:38,400 This article says it's republished from The 191 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:40,400 Conversation under Creative Commons license. 192 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:44,160 Read the original article. Yeah, interesting stuff. 193 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:47,600 So there you have it. We have astronauts stuck on the 194 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:51,520 space station because the people at NASA, the people that tell us 195 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:55,160 all the time that that UFOs are not real, that we're so much a 196 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:58,080 conspiracy theorist, those people have sent up a couple 197 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:01,560 astronauts in a craft that they knew was leaking helium. 198 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:04,040 But hey, no big deal. Set it up there. 199 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:07,280 The leak got worse and now these guys can't ride this capsule 200 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:10,840 back home and they're waiting until it looks like maybe August 201 00:10:11,080 --> 00:10:15,120 before a different ship, one that is more reliable, perhaps 202 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:18,040 can come pick them up and return them to planet Earth. 203 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:22,040 So I talked about this today just because the next time you 204 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:25,200 read about a UFO case that involves the government or NASA 205 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:29,600 or something, and they automatically quote a NASA 206 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:32,560 scientist as saying, well, UF OS aren't real. 207 00:10:32,560 --> 00:10:34,360 This was that. This was the other thing. 208 00:10:34,560 --> 00:10:36,720 Remember, that's an appeal to an authority. 209 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:40,600 And what kind of an authority are they really, if they've 210 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:45,040 already already blown up two space shuttles with those poor 211 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:48,400 occupants in it, and now they're working on the third one. 212 00:10:48,560 --> 00:10:52,440 They're sending up a space capsule with astronauts in it 213 00:10:52,680 --> 00:10:55,520 that they know is leaking helium, but they think that they 214 00:10:55,520 --> 00:10:57,080 can weigh it. They don't think it'll be that 215 00:10:57,080 --> 00:10:59,480 big of a deal. Wow. 216 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:05,400 So just remember, when you're being told that you're crazy, 217 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:08,200 dumb and competent conspiracy theorists, all these other 218 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:11,440 things, because you have questions about UFOs, the people 219 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:14,520 that you're supposed to believe are doing this kind of stuff, 220 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:16,600 I'll tell you which crowd I'd rather be in. 221 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:19,440 I'd rather be in the UFO crowd. Until next time. 222 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:21,520 This is UFO warning over and out.