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2022-05-21 23:23:26| Engadget

After two-and-a-half years of delays, Boeings Starliner capsule successfully docked with the International Space Station. It was an important milestone for a company that has, at least in the popular imagination, struggled to catch up with SpaceX. So its fitting how Boeing decided it would celebrate a successful mission.The seven-member Exp 67 crew gathers for a welcome ceremony in front of the hatch where the @BoeingSpace#Starliner docked on Friday evening. pic.twitter.com/AGfkAjWMbI International Space Station (@Space_Station) May 21, 2022When the crew of the ISS opened the hatch to Starliner, they found a surprise inside the spacecraft. Floating next to Orbital Flight Test-2s seated test dummy was a plush toy representing Jebediah Kerman, one of four original Kerbonauts featured in Kerbal Space Program. Jeb, as hes better known by the KSP community, served as the flights zero-g indicator. Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin took a small doll with him on the first-ever human spaceflight, and ever since it has become a tradition for most space crews to carry plush toys with them to make it easy to see when they've entered a microgravity environment.If youve ever played Kerbal Space Program, you have a sense of why it was so fitting Boeing decided to send Jeb to space. In KSP, designing spacecraft that will carry your Kerbonauts to orbit and beyond is no easy task. Often your initial designs will fall and crash as they struggle to fly free of Kerbins gravity. But you go back to the drawing board and tweak your designs until you find one that works. In a way, thats exactly what Boeings engineers had to do after Starliners first test flight in 2019 failed due to a software issue, and its second one was delayed following an unexpected valve problem.@BoeingSpace#Starliner passenger - Kerbal@nasa@NASA_Astronauts@astro_kjell@Astro_FarmerBob@AstroSamantha@astro_watkinspic.twitter.com/G8ueD7qkhh Serg.Korsakov (@SergKorsakov) May 21, 2022Boeing kept Jebs presence on OFT-2 secret until the spacecraft docked with the ISS. A spokesperson for the company told collectSPACE that Starliners engineering team chose the mascot in part because of the science, technology, engineering and math lessons KSP has to teach players. Jeb will spend the next few days with the crew of the ISS before they place him back in the spacecraft for its return trip to Earth.


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