Despite the messy situation that is Boeing’s commercial aviation arm, the company is slated to face another test when its space capsule, the CST-100 Starliner, will launch its first crewed mission—eventually. Currently, the plan is to launch on May 21, but if you’re making watch plans keep in mind that...
Despite the messy situation that is Boeing ’s commercial aviation arm, the company is slated to face another test when its space capsule, the CST-100 Starliner , will launch its first crewed mission—eventually., but if you’re making watch plans keep in mind that the launch date has already been delayed twice this month alone.
It’s been roughly a decade since NASA awarded Boeing a more than $4 billion contract aimed at getting private companies to step in and get astronauts to and from the ISS in the wake of the space shuttle’s 2011 retirement. Arguably, those words were more comforting then—before the January incident on Alaska Airlines when a door plug blew out minutes after takeoff.
They came close that time but scrubbed the launch at the last minute due to a faulty oxygen relief valve on the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket beneath the capsule, according to NASA officials.
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