This is the latest in a series of delays that have marred the maiden test flight of a crewed Starliner spacecraft.
and Boeing were forced to stand down from a launch attempt of the Starliner spacecraft on Monday due to a faulty valve that ground teams discovered just hours before liftoff. Starliner’s Crew Flight Test is now scheduled for launch on Friday, May 10, pending the resolution of the recently discovered anomaly,
astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station and back. A few hours before its scheduled liftoff on Monday, ULA announced that the launch had been scrubbed “due to an observation on a liquid oxygen self-regulating solenoid relief valve on the Centaur upper stage.” The valve regulates the flow and pressure of liquid oxygen in the rocket’s upper stage.
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