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UFO Morning. In this episode, we're talking
about astronauts stuck on space station.
That's correct, astronauts stuck on space station.
Now this article comes from yahoo.com, written by Ian
Whitaker, Senior Lecturer in Physics.
It says Nottingham Trent University, dated July 15th,
2024. Title says astronauts are stuck
on the International Space Station after yet more problems
with Boeing's beleaguered Starliner.
If you've been following the news lately, you know that been
a lot of issues with Boeing. Some pretty scary stuff going on
there. It seems like for the past few
weeks, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and SUNY Williams have
been stuck on the International Space Station after the first
crude voyage of Boeing's new Starliner spacecraft hit a snag.
Concerns raised by Boeing and NASA over thruster problems and
several helium leaks. Helium is used in Starliner's
engine system have prevented the craft from making the return
journey is scheduled. NASA has now said the astronauts
may have to stay put until the next scheduled crew switch over
in August, potentially on another ship.
I don't know, maybe they made the Russians so angry they won't
go up and get him anymore. That's some scary stuff.
Boeing and NASA are trying to put a positive spin on the
extension by saying they are testing systems required for
longer Starliner missions, but the project has already suffered
several delays, having originally been set to lift off
for the first time with crew in 2017.
This, combined with the latest problems, raises questions over
the whole Starliner program. I just bring this, I bring this
story up, not so much because it deals directly with UFOs, but as
someone that follows UFO phenomena, it's frequently NASA.
The one that's telling us, oh, you didn't see anything?
We don't have pictures of this, but we don't have pictures of
that. It wasn't a UFO.
I mean, they seem to be the ones that pose so much opposition to
people that are curious about UFOs, yet it looks like here
they're having a hard time even getting astronauts on and off
the space station. Now they're telling us that
they're the experts, but they've got astronauts stuck on the
space station station that they can't get down right now.
It says Starliner was noted as having a small helium leak
before it even launched. Helium is an inert gas, much
like neon or Exxon, meaning that it is very unreactive with other
materials. This makes it ideal when coming
into contact with rocket fuel and high temperatures.
Although producing it is an expensive process, it is
pressurized and used to push fuel into the engines at the
correct rate. Helium leaks can mean that not
enough fuel will reach a thruster.
They're talking about producing this stuff.
I remember a few years ago when the helium prices just
skyrocketed. I haven't really looked into
that. You have to wonder who's
manipulating the prices on that stuff.
The leak spotted while Starliner was on the launchpad was
determined to be negligible and the spacecraft was sent to orbit
regardless. That's your government.
The leak spotted while Starliner was on the launchpad was
determined to be negligible, and the spacecraft was sent into
orbit. I wonder if it was determined to
be negligible by the people that were going to be riding on it,
by actual engineers, or by somebody sitting behind a desk
somewhere. However, this turned into a
larger problem when additional healing leaks were identified
following launch, meaning that several of the spacecraft's
small maneuvering thrusters couldn't be used.
Isn't that awesome? You're on a you're on this tin
Canyon to space, and suddenly several of the thrusters that
you depend on to steer your ship can't be used.
It's just incompetence. We see it everywhere in the
government. I, I've talked about this
program before, many years ago in one of my NBA classes, We
were dealing with the subject of failure analysis.
And that was before the 2nd shuttle disaster.
And we went through the whole, the whole report on the launch
sequence and all that and how of course, tragically that that
craft blew up, taking the lives of all those astronauts.
And we also studied the responses of NASA, how the whole
thing happened. From what I could see was the
engineers had warned about the dangers because they basically
explained to them, the management that the O rings was
the order of those. That they weren't designed to
operate in that colder temperature.
And that if they went ahead and launched the rocket because it
was too cold out, that the fuel could get by the oil rings and
that could cause a, a catastrophic explosion, which of
course it did. And management response was just
kind of like, well, you know, too bad, so sad we got to launch
this thing. My whole contention was that
these decisions were being made qualitatively and not
quantitatively. They're being made based on the
emotions of of management that hey, we've got to do this as
opposed on the critical analysis and a critical thinking of the
actual engineers. When the professor asked me what
do you think is going to happen, I said they're going to blow up
another space shuttle. Well, I'm shocked.
Well, guess what happened a few years later, another space
shuttle got blown up. More mismanagement in my
opinion. And you can go in to look into
all the things that happened there, with the tiles falling
off, people warning about it, and actions that should have
been taken not being allowed to be taken.
And so with this group of people who just think they know
everything, they're so smart, they send up a craft with a leak
in it because they think it's going to be OK.
They're just going to wing it. When they tell me that UFOs
don't exist or I shouldn't believe my lying eyes, I don't.
I don't, I don't bend down to their authority, OK?
They are not an authority figure to me.
That's why I'm reading this article.
I'm telling you here we have NASA.
They've had two major tragedies that by all accounts could have
and should have been prevented. My opinion, it looks like
managerial incompetence. Just this arrogant idea that we
don't have to listen to the engineers.
We're we're we're going to do it our own way.
And you just follow the science. Well, they're not following the
science. They're following what they want
to do, their own opinions. Anyway, goes on this article
that says an inability to adjust the orientation of the craft or
the orbital perimeters of the reentry could, in the worst case
scenario, result in massive heat buildup and the destruction of a
spacecraft with two astronauts on board.
Yeah, but we're going to wing it.
We're going to launch that baby anyway.
There are additional thrusters and other so-called
redundancies, backup systems designed into the spacecraft.
So this is a very unlikely scenario.
Yeah, until it happens. However, so were the helium
leaks. While Boeing and NASA have
considered it safe to return on Starliner, it's perfectly
conceivable that the astronauts might have some trepidation and
anxiety, especially as these issues did not occur with the
uncrewed test flights. Yet it's always the people that
are on the ground that are eager to get you off the ground.
The next particular problem is that Starliner returns and
jettisons its service module on re entry as it returns to the
surface on land rather than at sea like Russian spacecraft
Soyuz did and the SpaceX Dragon capsules still do.
This means that the bit of the spacecraft with all the vital
information on will be burned up, making it very difficult to
determine what actually went wrong.
Currently, ground tests are being run by NASA and
investigations are being conducted on the ISS to gather
as much information as possible before the return.
The astronauts made it up to the ISS and are safe there.
While it is likely that Starliner will return to Earth
should a major fault be discovered while it is docked to
the ISS, there are other return vehicles that can be used to
ferry the two crew members back home.
The astronauts safety will no doubt be paramount in the minds
of both the agency and industry. Yeah, that's why they set him up
there in the 1st place with the leaky spacecraft.
But this is not the first problem with Starliner.
The vehicle has suffered from major delays since conception as
part of the commercial crew program in 2010.
The contract indicated that Starliner should be ready by
2017, with a two year delay before the 1st successful
unmanned launch in 2022. There was a failed attempt in
2019. The main crew launch was then
delayed by a month. These delays indicate that
Boeing is falling behind its main commercial competitor,
SpaceX, which won a contract at the same time as Boeing in 2010
to build vehicles that could transport crew to the ISS.
SpaceX was successfully launched a crew mission with the Dragon
capsule in 2020 to give an indication of the success.
Crew Dragon is currently completing its 5th manned
mission to the ISS and has also completed 30 cargo missions, but
I can tell you which one I'd rather be on.
Boeing has been a major player in ACE missions with NASA for
decades, laying a major role in the Space Shuttle program, for
example. This relationship continues with
the company's role in the Space Launch System rocket that will
send astronauts on their way to the moon.
The company has been one of the biggest and most admired
contractors in the aerospace industry.
Yeah, until recently maybe, I don't know, will started falling
off of airplanes. Maybe.
However, the problem with the Starliner come not long after a
widely publicized incidents with Boeing aircraft.
So the corporation could do without any further problems
with its crude spacecraft to add to its woes.
Yeah, I think when they're talking about further problems
with its crude aircraft, they're talking about wheels falling off
on takeoff, maybe doors getting sucked off of airplanes mid
flight, I don't know. Just a thought.
This article says it's republished from The
Conversation under Creative Commons license.
Read the original article. Yeah, interesting stuff.
So there you have it. We have astronauts stuck on the
space station because the people at NASA, the people that tell us
all the time that that UFOs are not real, that we're so much a
conspiracy theorist, those people have sent up a couple
astronauts in a craft that they knew was leaking helium.
But hey, no big deal. Set it up there.
The leak got worse and now these guys can't ride this capsule
back home and they're waiting until it looks like maybe August
before a different ship, one that is more reliable, perhaps
can come pick them up and return them to planet Earth.
So I talked about this today just because the next time you
read about a UFO case that involves the government or NASA
or something, and they automatically quote a NASA
scientist as saying, well, UF OS aren't real.
This was that. This was the other thing.
Remember, that's an appeal to an authority.
And what kind of an authority are they really, if they've
already already blown up two space shuttles with those poor
occupants in it, and now they're working on the third one.
They're sending up a space capsule with astronauts in it
that they know is leaking helium, but they think that they
can weigh it. They don't think it'll be that
big of a deal. Wow.
So just remember, when you're being told that you're crazy,
dumb and competent conspiracy theorists, all these other
things, because you have questions about UFOs, the people
that you're supposed to believe are doing this kind of stuff,
I'll tell you which crowd I'd rather be in.
I'd rather be in the UFO crowd. Until next time.
This is UFO warning over and out.