Boeing Starliner Drop Test

Engineers from NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., and Boeing dropped a full-scale test article of the company’s CST-100 Starliner into Langley’s 20-foot-deep Hydro Impact Basin at the Landing and Impact Research Facility. Although the spacecraft is designed to land on land, Boeing is testing the Starliner’s systems in water to ensure astronaut safety in the unlikely event of an emergency. This test happened Feb. 9, 2016.

[@JerTin-Woodlands]

So very cool to see ILC Dover on there. My father worked there back in the Apollo days. I still have his two certificates (NASA and ILC) hanging next to his picture and burial flag.

[@NASALANGLEY]

If you want to know more details about the testing that goes into the Boeing CST-100 Starliner - check out this story: www.nasa.gov/feature/engineer-makes-sure-commercial-crew-craft-will-make-smooth-landing

[@PSPMHaestros]

Are the bags supossed to deflate that quickly?

[@ajofscott]

I imagine another test will be a chute braking drop to see if those fancy bags deploy against an air wash.

[@vlatikpipik4708]

Я не понял и в чем заключается тест? В реальности при приземлении, капсула падать же будет без подушек

[@robertendl9205]

No, the bags will be deployed I think.

[@MrNaras1]

SpaceX will ruin the dreams of Boeing...