NASA Astronauts To Talk To White House Representatives From Space

NASA astronauts will communicate from the ISS (photo: dock. NASA)

JAKARTA Starliner testing mission, Boeing's spacecraft, successfully launched on June 5. The plane carrying the two NASA astronauts has arrived at the International Space Station (ISS). To discuss the success of the first Starliner mission, astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will communicate with NASA officials and representatives from the White House. The call was held on Tuesday, June 11. The two astronauts are scheduled to participate in two calls. The first session will begin at 00.00 WIB with NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, Associate Administrator Jim Free, and Johnson Space Center Director Vanessa Wyche. Meanwhile, the second session will resume at 01.40 WIB. This session will present Chirag Parikh, Vice Assistant President Joe Biden as well as Executive Secretary of the White House National Space Council, as moderator. Both sessions will be broadcast live on NASA Plus channel, NASA Television, as well as NASA's official website. NASA Plus and NASA TV Live can be accessed via a browser by typing the name of its channel in the search engine search bar.

Wilmore and Williams have landed on the ISS since Thursday, June 6 at around 13.40 p.m. local time. The two astronauts will stay in space for a week to test the sub-system from Starliner so that the aircraft gets certification. More specifically, these two NASA astronauts will assist in validating the transport system from Starliner, observing Starliner's operational capabilities while in orbit, to testing its driving maneuvers.