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Katherine Firkin: US Correspondent says Boeing's astronauts are likely to remain stuck in space into July · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Katherine Perkin is in the States. Where's Katherine? Morning to you?
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  Speaker 2: Hi there mate.
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  Speaker 1: These astronauts, I got to say, when I initially was
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  Speaker 1: going to go up, not that I was going to
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  Speaker 1: go up, but these astronauts, and it was a Boeing,
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  Speaker 1: you'd have to ask some serious questions. And now they're
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  Speaker 1: up there and this sort of stuck.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I think it was only a couple of weeks
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  Speaker 2: ago we were talking about the spaceline of finally having
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  Speaker 2: this success, successful mission, blasting off into space with these
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  Speaker 2: two astronauts on board. But unfortunately they are pretty much
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  Speaker 2: stuck up there for the moment. The mission was meant
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  Speaker 2: to be just eight days long. Now we're being told
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  Speaker 2: they probably won't be heading home until early next month
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  Speaker 2: at the absolute soonest, and that's due to several issues
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  Speaker 2: with this Boeing craft. They've had malfunctioning thrusters and a
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  Speaker 2: series of helium leaks. What's a big problem for Boeing's
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  Speaker 2: engineers is that these issues are occurring on what's called
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  Speaker 2: the service module. It's essentially a little attachment that sits
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  Speaker 2: at the bottom of the aircraft and it's a part
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  Speaker 2: of the craft that will actually be jettisoned and discarded
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  Speaker 2: before the capsule returns home. So if they don't fix
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  Speaker 2: it now up in orbit, they're never going to get
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  Speaker 2: a chance to actually see what's going wrong. And that's
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  Speaker 2: even if they can bring the craft home. At this
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  Speaker 2: point they don't know. So for the moment those astronauts
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  Speaker 2: have stuck up there, we're being told they've got plenty
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  Speaker 2: of supplies. Worst case, they can hitch a right on
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  Speaker 2: SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft, which is also attached to the International
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  Speaker 2: Space Station. But certainly not the pr that Boeing would
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  Speaker 2: have been wanting at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. I'm noting the Supreme Court for a busy today.
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  Speaker 1: They've handed down some information on the abortion business. But
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  Speaker 1: also earlier on today there's social media six ' three
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  Speaker 1: What did they say?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, And it has been a busy time
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  Speaker 2: for the Supreme Court. Essentially, this social media case was
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  Speaker 2: all about free speech. Conservatives had challenged the Biden's administration's
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  Speaker 2: efforts to really pressure social media companies into removing certain
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  Speaker 2: posts that it deemed misinformation. Pretty much arose from the
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  Speaker 2: time of COVID with a flood of contentious posts over
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  Speaker 2: COVID nineteen and vaccines that Biden administration insisted they had
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  Speaker 2: the right to get misinformation removed, Conservatives that it was
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  Speaker 2: breaching free speech. Basically, no harms being done is the
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  Speaker 2: ruling from the Supreme Court. But this, of course all
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  Speaker 2: comes just a day before tomorrow's big presidential debate, so
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  Speaker 2: it is a bit of a win for Biden as
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  Speaker 2: we go into that one. I'm not sure how excited
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  Speaker 2: we really are about this debate. There's no studio audience,
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  Speaker 2: there's the ability to mute the candidate's microphone, so I
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  Speaker 2: don't think it's going to be as hot and tempered
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  Speaker 2: as we've seen in the past. And if we don't
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  Speaker 2: all fall asleep, it might give us a bit of
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  Speaker 2: a look into the next nineteen weeks coming up to
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  Speaker 2: this big election.
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  Speaker 1: Catch up with you, sir, Catherine. Appreciate it very much,
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  Speaker 1: Catherine Ferkin, I think for more from News Talk sed B.
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