NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams said during a press conference on Wednesday they feel 'confident' Boeing's Starliner can bring them home.
Sort of. Spacecraft production is very low-volume; a lot of them are produced to meet certain needs, so features like docking hardware compatibility tend to fall lower in the priority list compared to the core mission features.
But for things like the ISS, the docking specs are very well known, so even if one craft doesn’t have a compatible dock, they’ll often make adapters.
Sort of. Spacecraft production is very low-volume; a lot of them are produced to meet certain needs, so features like docking hardware compatibility tend to fall lower in the priority list compared to the core mission features.
But for things like the ISS, the docking specs are very well known, so even if one craft doesn’t have a compatible dock, they’ll often make adapters.