Live: Nasa astronauts give tour of Boeing Starliner after docking on ISS

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Watch live as two Nasa astronauts give a tour of the Boeing Starliner on Saturday 8 June.

The Starliner capsule safely docked with the International Space Station on Thursday, meeting a key test in proving the vessel’s flight-worthiness and sharpening Boeing’s competition with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

The rendezvous was achieved despite an earlier loss of several guidance-control jet thrusters, some of them due to a helium propulsion leak, which Nana and Boeing said should not compromise the mission.

Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner, with veteran astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams aboard, arrived at the orbiting platform after a flight of nearly 27 hours following its launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

On arrival, Wilmore, 58, and Williams, 61, spent about two hours conducting a series of standard procedures, such as checking for airlock leaks and pressurizing the passage between the capsule and the ISS, before opening the entry hatches.

A live Nasa video feed showed the smiling new arrivals, wearing their blue flight suits, weightlessly floating headfirst through the padded passageway, one after the other, into the station.

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Global Awareness drive salute and support NASA Space team.

gaurav
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Super Navy Stars, we all love ❤and admire. Great tour. I will show my grandsons.

carollever
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Gosh, it's a tight fit in cockpit

GordonWishart
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Looks like Beverly hillbillies compared to space x capsule.

jeffgray
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It wasn't politically astute for Butch to describe (12:00) the actions of the US Navy as "protecting freedom".
Such a phrase is politically loaded.
The earlier salute by Butch to "my fellow Navy aviators...serving out there now", was apolitical, neutral.
He should've left it at that.

davidstevenson
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Is it just my imagination, or did it seem like the Crew Dragon had more space? Perhaps less clutter as well?

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