See Boeing Starliner's re-entry and landing from inside capsule

Take a Boeing Starliner ride with Rosie the Rocketeer, a dummy astronaut that flew on the OFT-2 mission in May 2022. See the views of re-entry, parachute deployment and touchdown from inside the capsule.
Credit: Boeing

[@waynec369]

A landing so smooth that he slept through the whole thing...

[@CactusJackSlade]

(she actually) ;-)

[@sebsunda]

🤣

[@tdore5794]

Why to go Boeing Fire Department. Recovery was spot on team. Training paying off. Keep up the great job you di

[@thinkingthing4851]

Very Cool Release!

[@johnshackleton323]

Jeepers. That thing plopped down with a thud.

[@k2l87]

This makes me think the capsule yesterday did indeed slam in to the ground

[@stormhound1973]

Hmm, but all new shepard capsule landings look like that. The retro-thrusters kick up lots of dust

[@user-yd1vl9lj5j]

Oh it did hit the ground. They never showed the capsule afterwards. Remember, it's really an adult amusement park ride for the wealthy that had a problem. If people see that damaged capsule, they'll be less inclined to try it. Another interesting thing is they stopped filming the booster, so you didn't see it impact the earth. Couldn't take a chance of filming it it hitting civilians and infrastructure I guess. Where as in Fl, they fall into the ocean when damaged. I'm sure Xinsurance wants a little talk with Jeffrey.

[@UncleKennysPlace]

@@stormhound1973 Yes, the dust propagates much more quickly than it would with a hard landing. Also, there would likely be a bounce if not retros. But supposedly survivable either way.

[@dickwong903]

Thats really cool

[@theblacksorrow]

as a space/rockets enthusiast.... I'm shaking 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@MrHichammohsen1]

Bro that was GORGEOUS!

[@billm6774]

Think they'll be ready for the space station before it shuts down?

[@yxhankun]

A bit tense inside without light music.

[@lifeoflw84]

Crazy

[@claysmell]

those rounds sniveled a lot - expected?

[@glz1]

Look's good

[@MrCyp200la]

Is this the one that cratered the ground?

[@Captofthisship]

Any idea of what this project was for, what were they testing?

[@stormhound1973]

This is the second test flight of Boeing's Starliner which will transport people to and from the space station. The first test flight failed to reach the ISS. The next flight, scheduled for next year, will carry two NASA astronauts to the ISS.

[@Captofthisship]

@@stormhound1973 I gotcha, pretty exciting stuff man, thanks!

[@kypdurron62]

Testing how much money they can burn through before SpaceX puts their orbital department out of business.

[@thomasquick3446]

As I believe Chuck Yeager said as he was being picked up walking away from the smoking wreckage of his aircraft, a good landing is one you are able to walk away from.

[@Jwallis_21]

Imagine that the g force dragging you down

[@upyourarsenal2104]

It a little close to the mountains

[@johntucker469]

congradulations great landing

[@overseerofyahweh7811]

What kind of camera is that black and white one?

[@_K3PLR]

Likely an infrared camera

[@exon15]

Where's the fireball for re-entry?

[@davidfordyoyoguy]

What are the circles on the ground at the beginning?

[@TheShellshock67]

Irrigation circles in a dessert.. big spray arm on wheels fixed in the center. They drice around the center and spray the crops

[@davidfordyoyoguy]

@@TheShellshock67 That is what I originally thought, but they seemed too big. Like, shouldn't see them from space big.

[@becausereasons3168]

At least that didn't fail. When's the next flight? Maybe never? Damn it.

[@markanderson4163]

who's the dummy in the space suit?...sounds like a Dodge truck on the highway

[@Finezzato]

that landing looked weird af

[@colesteele1]

I thought for certain that this would be a H2O landing.

[@clanross62]

That's so 1960's

[@Knohltorious]

SpaceX lands in the water. Not for me.

[@joeshmoe4671]

Whiplash on that landing

[@paulbradford6475]

It's noisy is space!

[@marcovitchoups8827]

👌👌👌👍👍👍👍👍

[@ronaldheflen7629]

This ..is..really..old..google...why...please..your..news..now...again..helping...just.mme

[@peterkershaw1313]

congratulations 🎉

[@roidroid]

Congrats Peter

[@wargodra]

This is not the same video feed,the original has way more impact .bs

[@elisamichele1231]

That was a lot of things, a smooth landing was not one of them lol. Probably some whiplash sheesh

[@1953Johnnyp]

Someone needs to overdub the sound with a toilet flushing about halfway through!

[@familyplans3788]

I bet the parachute team will have had a few memos about that parachute deploy , it was far from perfect

[@areareare9953]

I'm also a bit leery about what looks like parachute cables moving freely on a handle. That looks like a potential wrap up situation.

[@Spaceguy-nineteensixtynine]

@@areareare9953 Absolutely, took way to long to even partially inflate, I would’ve been getting nervous had I been on board. “Cmon, any day now. Inflate!”

[@sebsunda]

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who noticed.... It also felt strange that they only had 3... Wasn't NASA requirement for 4 to insure redundancy?

[@Spaceguy-nineteensixtynine]

@@sebsunda Apollo had 3, that was still redundant. I believe it was Apollo 15 where only 2 chutes inflated but they still landed safely. I’m guessing the CM weighed more than starliner too. Never hurts to have more tho!

[@FabioQuadrana]

More than sixty years passed from the first man in the space, and we are still with conical capsules descending with parachutes (and not very smoothly by the way)...

[@Megabean]

Really? lol you're not very bright, we've done other kinds it vehicles. It's just that this kind of design is really safe, reletively simple and that landing was even softer then the Space Shuttles Runway landing 😂, you wanna see a hard landing? Look up the Soyuz landing

[@richardcranium8984]

The good news is the capsule safely landed, the bad news is the astronaut was mummified.

[@robertmiranda2444]

Let's see the latest capsule impact. Hahaha

[@seesafar9912]

and then the sideways entry- glad they made it. Damn. They we nearly a fireball coming in. Boeing, hun'h?

[@6JoJo6]

I like turtles

[@roidroid]

They are pretty cool. But for how long?

[@vpaint1773]

Its corn

[@6JoJo6]

@@roidroid I like my turtles at least 6 meters long

[@daddyg5654]

So you got hundreds of millions of dollars to just re-create 50+ year old Appollo technology. What a joke....

[@_K3PLR]

Capsules are a tried and true design. SpaceX made a capsule as well but i dont see you complaining there.

[@paintedpony2935]

Reload of old news. Don't waste mt time.

[@donatellafogli2880]

yesterday I saw a claud of dust… ??????

[@UncleKennysPlace]

As with all Blue Origin New Shepard capsule landings.

[@MrSlim1959]

That was bozos rocket,this was boeings.

[@xponen]

the cloud of dust is from the braking rocket. This one doesn't use braking rocket.

[@Raytracer96024]

CGI

[@bika4942]

Do you people think that i am joking?

[@trappking8626]

Now much respect boring for the view that something you don’t get to see or hear everyday

[@roidroid]

Rotation handle seems the most innovative part of this *old-fashioned dumb non-reusable* system.

[@Therealprinceofcobh]

Starliner is reusable

[@detritus23]

I think you meant “proven, reliable paradigm for launching humans into orbit.” And, what does SpaceX use and where does it land? Talk about atavistic.

[@Delta-V-Heavy]

Using airbags to achieve a soft landing on solid ground is something no crew-rated capsule has ever done before. Starliner is also the first US orbital capsule to land on land in general, and it accomplishes it in this new and innovative way that is different from how the Russian Soyuz and Chinese Shenzhou spacecraft have done it previously.

[@roidroid]

all fair responses. Thankyou.

[@Swizzenator]

isn't it like 4 billion bucks per launch? Hardly reusable.

[@erico5865]

Still waiting for the fireball. Will happen soon enough. I feel sorry for the astronauts selected to fly this death machine.

[@UncleKennysPlace]

Why would there be a fireball?

[@akachanneljuice1565]

Did you not see Blues landing yesterday? I’m pretty sure those astronauts would’ve been badly injured from all that chaos we saw yesterday

[@tazanteflight8670]

The elits are becoming desperate to leave the planet....

[@VladoPjesivac]

Soooo fake. Earth is flat 😉