The launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida was years behind schedule, but considered a milestone for Boeing and NASA.
Boeing launched its Starliner spacecraft with a pair of NASA astronauts for the space agency to the International Space Station. , a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, lifted off from its pad at 10:52 a.m. lighting up the sky of the Florida Space Coast in what was heralded as a triumphant beginning to an eight-day test of how the spacecraft operates with a crew on board.— after a month of delays — marks only the beginning of the journey.
testing whether the spacecrafts’s heat shield and parachutes work as expected before a planned landing at one of five remote sites in the Western United States.to the space station, and for the first time give the space agency two American-made vehicles to ferry astronauts there. Since 2020, Space X has been flying those missions alone, but NASA has long wanted two spacecraft for its“commercial crew” program so that if one went down it would have a backup.
But after that flight, the company discovered that tape used to cover electrical wiring in the capsule was flammable and that its parachutes needed an upgrade. NASA officials publicly supported Boeing and worked steadily to help it get Starliner to the point where it could fly astronauts safely. But they also said they should have exerted more vigorous oversight over the company as it worked to develop the spacecraft.The mishaps have cost the company about $1.4 billion.
“We do anticipate everything’s going to go as planned,” she said in an interview. “But if it doesn’t, we’ll take a moment and analyze it and talk about it, and we’ll be okay. So our confidence in the mission is high.”
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