Quick Glance: The Boeing Starliner spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station.
- With no humans on board, Starliner's autonomous systems and Houston-based ground controllers led the vehicle through a carefully orchestrated series of maneuvers to gradually bring Starliner closer to the International Space Station (ISS) before docking.
- Starliner launched on May 19, 2022, atop a human-rated United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, and spent its first hours in space performing a series of system demonstrations that allowed mission managers to confirm the spacecraft was healthy and capable of safe maneuvering.
- "Starliner has proven safe, autonomous rendezvous and docking capability," Jim Chilton, senior vice president of Boeing Space and Launch, stated.
Quick Glance: Plane returns after first officer fails to finish test
- Virgin Atlantic insists that safety was not jeopardized.
- Flight VS3 was forced to return because the captain had not been authorized as a trainer.
- According to a Virgin Atlantic spokesperson, "Due to a rostering error, flight VS3 from London Heathrow to New York-JFK returned to Heathrow on Monday 2nd May shortly after take-off."
- "The qualified first officer, who was flying alongside an experienced captain, was replaced with a new pilot to ensure full compliance with Virgin Atlantic's training protocols, which exceed industry standards."
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Quick Glance: SpaceX deploys 'Crew 4' astronauts to the International Space Station
- Elon Musk's rocket business SpaceX has launched four additional people into orbit for NASA, including a medical doctor turned spacewalker and a geologist who specializes in Martian landslides.
- The SpaceX launch vehicle, a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket atop a Crew Dragon spacecraft called Freedom, lifted off with its four-person crew from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 3.52am EDT (7.52am Irish time).
- She is the first African American woman to fly on a long-duration mission aboard the International Space Station as part of the Crew 4 mission.
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SpaceX capped off an incredibly busy month with a NASA crew landing early this morning: https://trib.al/3MVmsJR
Quick Glance: The Coast Guard is looking for a passenger who jumped off a Carnival cruise.
- "The ship's crew participated in search and rescue efforts until the ship was released by the US Coast Guard, which continues the search," Carnival said in a statement.
- A hunt for a passenger who leapt overboard from a Carnival Cruise early Saturday is underway.
- "Mardi Gras departed on her next cruise as scheduled," a Carnival representative told Insider.This is the second time a guest has jumped from a Carnival cruise this year.
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Quick Glance: A Chinese airliner carrying 132 people crashes in the country's south.
- Officials claimed a China Eastern Boeing 737-800 carrying 132 people crashed in a remote mountainous area of southern China on Monday, sparking a forest inferno visible from space in the country's biggest air accident in over a decade.
- Both the CAAC and China Eastern stated that personnel had been dispatched to the crash site in accordance with emergency procedures.
- China Eastern Airlines operates 109 Boeing 737-800s as one of its key workhorses in its fleet of nearly 600 planes.
- Following the crash, China Eastern Online switched to a black-and-white homepage.
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Quick Glance: Incident on American Airlines Flight: Flight Attendant Stops Passenger with Coffee Pot
- A flight from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., had to land in Kansas City due to an unruly passenger displaying erratic behavior.
- The crew and other passengers had to assist in controlling the disruptive passenger, as reported by American Airlines.
- A 50-year-old man began creating disturbances and threatening flight attendants, according to the FBI.
- The passenger attempted to open the aircraft door and was subdued by other passengers and flight attendants until the aircraft landed safely in Kansas City with the FBI waiting.