{"id":23072,"date":"2024-05-05T11:07:42","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T05:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=23072"},"modified":"2025-04-07T00:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T18:33:08","slug":"what-is-boeing-starliner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-boeing-starliner\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Boeing Starliner?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Boeing Starliner<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Starliner is a <strong>spacecraft<\/strong> that <strong>transports astronauts into space after<\/strong> being <strong>launched there by a rocket.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It consists of a <strong>crew capsule and<\/strong> a <strong>service module.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>crew capsule houses the astronauts<\/strong>; like others of its kind, it will be <strong>able to survive reentry<\/strong> and <strong>return to the ground<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>service module consists<\/strong> of the <strong>equipment and systems<\/strong> the astronauts need to survive in space, including air and temperature control, water supply, sanitation, etc., plus the engines and fuel required to manoeuvre the spacecraft.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>service module won\u2019t be reusable.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Starliner is more than 4 meters wide and can <strong>house up to seven astronauts<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The Starliner has an innovative, <strong>weldless structure and is reusable up to 10 times<\/strong> with a six-month turnaround time.<\/li>\n<li>It also features wireless internet and tablet technology for crew interfaces.<\/li>\n<li>It can be <strong>fit atop an Atlas V rocket<\/strong>, operated by United Launch Alliance, a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What is Starliner\u2019s purpose?<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>On September 16, 2014, <strong>NASA<\/strong> announced it had <strong>awarded contracts to SpaceX and Boeing to fly astronauts to<\/strong> the International Space Station (<strong>ISS<\/strong>).<\/li>\n<li>Since being awarded the NASA contracts, <strong>SpaceX has flown<\/strong> 13 missions to the<strong> ISS onboard its Dragon crew capsule<\/strong> (which can also house seven astronauts).<\/li>\n<li><strong>After NASA shut its Space Shuttle programme<\/strong> in 2011 <strong>and before SpaceX\u2019s Dragon<\/strong> capsule got ready in 2020, <strong>only Russia\u2019s Soyuz rocket<\/strong> and capsule <strong>could ferry astronauts to <\/strong>and from the<strong> ISS.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>If the Starliner mission succeeds<\/strong>, <strong>the U.S.<\/strong> will, <strong>for the first time<\/strong> in its history, <strong>have two spacecraft to launch astronauts to space.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>SpaceX and Boeing will take turns<\/strong> launching astronauts to the ISS\u2014each crew\u2019s expedition lasts up to six months\u2014until the ISS is decommissioned next decade.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What is the International Space Station (ISS)?<\/h3>\n<p>The International Space Station is a large spacecraft in orbit around Earth. It serves as a home where crews of astronauts and cosmonauts live. The space station is also a unique science laboratory. It is a unique international collaboration among five space agencies: NASA, Roscosmos, JAXA, ESA, and CSA. The International Space Station is made up of many different modules, each of which has a specific purpose.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/significance-of-boeing-starliners-first-crewed-test-flight-on-may-7-explained\/article68136296.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Significance of Boeing Starliner\u2019s first crewed test flight on May 7 | Explained<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starliner is a spacecraft that transports astronauts into space after being launched there by a rocket. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}