Speaker 0: welcome back to silicon scoop, everyone. so the first update this morning is last week, we talked about how the astronauts from nasa were stuck. and, you know, they've been up there since may. they've been docked there since may nineteen, and nasa there's been problems with the, boeing starliner that it has there's been problems with the thrusters. there's been problems with a bunch of different things, and they didn't know when they were gonna get home. they got plenty of food, but as you were saying, they're running out of they were running out of things like clothing and whatnot, but, they've got a couple of supply runs. so now we're the question becomes, you know, where are we? where are they? and when they're gonna bring it home. so we talked about all this stuff, about problems on, you know, why can't they just fly up another suit? and, apparently, they have. they're flying up to have one suit up there already. they're gonna bring up another one. and we didn't know dates and how long and what the resolution was gonna be. but within hours of us talking about it, they came out with this new they've decided to act. Speaker 1: yep. yeah. they made a decision. Speaker 0: so they made a decision. so nasa will return boeing starliner to earth without astronauts. so butch and wilmore and sonny williams are currently aboard the spacecraft, and they're going to now, be brought home by spacex Speaker 1: yeah. Speaker 0: in a dragon module. Speaker 1: no. is, this is nuts. this just goes to show that this underscores spacex is growing dominant in space transportation, essentially. the other thing to think about too. right? as this problem with boeing, and their starliner spacecraft, becomes bigger and bigger, the ceo of millennium space, which is boeing's satellite maker, has quietly left the company. Speaker 0: yeah. we're gonna talk about that in a second. i got that article up here. Speaker 1: oh, sorry. sorry. Speaker 0: that's alright. no. that's great. i mean, this is all part of it. Speaker 1: and, yeah. so, yeah, so they're gonna be they're slated to come back on in february. so, again, this just goes to underscore all of the problems that boeing has had with their airplanes, with their, with their space program, with everything. and, like, i know that they changed, they changed leadership, but i don't know if that's really gonna fix things. Speaker 0: agreed. i don't know if it's gonna fix things. and i'll change leadership in this particular segment. so that doesn't affect the leadership in the playing area and whatnot. but the yeah. boeing's in a lot of trouble, and nasa didn't wanna take a chance. boeing says, yeah. it's safe to bring them home, but, you know, nasa and boeing identified helium links and experienced issues with the spacecraft reaction control on the thrusters on june sixth, which has been causing us all products to these problems. since then, engineering teams have completed a significant amount of work including reviewing a collection of data, conducting flight and ground testing, hosting independent reviews with agency, propulsion experts, and developing various return contingencies plans. the uncertainty and lack of experts concurrence does not meet agency safety performance requirements for human space flight. so we're saying, yeah. but you don't meet our requirements for human space flight, so we need another way to bring our astronauts home. so they need to then nasa leadership team to move the astronauts to the crew nine mission. Speaker 1: yeah. it's, blow, but it's, it just goes to show that, like, i know there was something with the parachute. there's something with the wiring. there's there's just yeah. Speaker 0: parachute concerns, problems with tech with the parachute system, raising concerns with ability to safely deploy when they're bringing it home. potential issues with the spacecraft wiring were also identified, which could pose safety risk. the starliner has been docked since may. so nasa is planning to return the starliner uncrewed, and i think that is gonna make or break for boeing, honestly. Speaker 1: yeah. Speaker 0: because they say it's perfectly safe to bring home. so, anyway, we'll talk about that in a second. the crew will be onboard. isis is now scheduled to return to earth in february twenty twenty, twenty twenty five using a different spacecraft, likely a dragon space capsule. so yeah. yeah. it's a mass, you know, elon's i won't say laughing. but all of a sudden, they're ahead now, and nas has to reevaluate its multiple partner situation. but i guess at the same time, if it only had boeing as a partner, they'd be screwed. so having multiple partners has really helped them. they're probably gonna have to set up new standards like we talked about to make sure spacesuits are compatible and a few of these other things. and they're gonna bring the starliner home on september twenty twenty twenty four. sorry. sorry. they're gonna bring, the starliner to earth, yeah, mid september in a month, give or take. and yeah. and so we'll see how well that goes. if that comes home safely and there are no absolute issues and everything's safe, then boeing still has some hint of integrity left if yeah. anything happens with that. you know? because they can't continue to say it's safe, this and that, that, you know, they're completely ruined. and i wouldn't, you know, necessarily trust them going forward because there's a lot of stuff going here. so yeah. yeah. Speaker 1: the other thing to take into consideration, and i think it's flown under the radar, is there was something about space anemia, and, like, the, extended space mission and health conditions, and they're worried about sunita's health, based on how much longer she's gonna have to stay out there. so there's a bunch of health issues that come into play and, like, it's scary. is this i don't even know. is this the longest that anyone's obviously, unplanned, though, probably the longest unplanned. but is this the longest anyone's been at iss for? Speaker 0: that is a very good question. that's a Speaker 1: good question. i just thought of it now as we're talking about it. but Speaker 0: alright. i'll, find out in a minute. but i wanted to jump over to based on all of this that's going on, like you said, jason kim, the ceo of boeing satellite maker, millennium space, has quietly left the company. Speaker 1: yeah. so i don't know much about millennium space. i think that's their satellite division. is that right? Speaker 0: yes. that's the people who make all this. Speaker 1: oh, the people that even do the starliner Speaker 0: too? yeah. Speaker 1: who? okay. so yeah. obviously, yeah, that makes total sense. Speaker 0: it's a boeing subsidiary that does all this space stuff. Speaker 1: yeah. the thing is i was actually doing some research and talking about this. like, is this the end of boeing? but, really, it's not. right? because they've got tons of government contracts. they're a old company that's been around with they're well resourced with a long history of overcoming adversity. they're one of the largest aerospace manufacturers in the world with a divorce portfolio. i, like, as much as i would like them to fail because of all of the shady stuff that they've done, i don't think they will. Speaker 0: so to answer your questions, four hundred and thirty seven days and eighteen hours. Speaker 1: okay. so not even close. okay. Speaker 0: valerie poliskov aboard the mircea station in nineteen ninety four to march, twenty two nineteen ninety five. wow. and then, after that, it was three hundred seventy days by sergei aburdeyev. this is a small font. forgive me. he spent three hundred seventy nine days aboard meer between nineteen ninety eight and nineteen ninety nine. Speaker 1: wow. okay. so they're not even close to that. Speaker 0: and kennedy padalka has spent the most cumulative time in space with total of eight hundred and seventy eight days in five minutes. yes. over five missions. sorry. so it's a small part there. alright. millennium space was acquired by boeing back in two thousand eighteen. under kim's leadership, the company secured significant deals with the us department of defense to build satellites, for missile and threat tracking. the company has also successfully executed the victus nox mission for the us space force, which set new records for the fastest integration deployment defense payload. the satellite, the vixnoc success, involve partnering of firefly space to integrate a satellite with the launch vehicle within just fifty eight hours. the satellite became operational thirty seven hours after launch, demonstrating a rapid delivery capabilities. Speaker 1: wow. Speaker 0: so they've done some stuff, but kim's departure comes amidst uncertainty of boeing's space division, including issues with starliner spacecraft, which recently had to return to earth with or couldn't have returned to earth without a crew. so crew. Speaker 1: have they had other issues with the starliner in the past? i don't even know that. i know that's some of the questions you probably don't have the answer to. Speaker 0: but i don't have it off the top of my head because only when the astronauts get stranded did Speaker 1: i start paying attention. i know. me too. yeah. so we're Speaker 0: gonna keep track of this, and we'll watch when the starliner comes home and see what goes on. and we'll keep tabs on the astronauts and let you know what's happening there. Speaker 1: yeah. so it says that, in twenty nineteen, they had software issues with the orbital flight tests. they've had mission delays because of technical problems in twenty one. so there's been a lot of but, again, when it comes to going to space, like, space station has problems. right? so yeah.