Boeing and NASA teams were working toward sending a new spacecraft with two astronauts to the International Space Station on Monday. However, that launch will be delayed yet again after being scrubbed two hours before liftoff.
Following years of delays and additional testing, Boeing 's CFT-100 Starliner spacecraft was scheduled to launch NASA astronauts Suni Williams, 58, and Butch Wilmore, 61, to the space station on what is known as the Crew Flight Test for Starliner.Liftoff was scheduled for 10:34 p.m. ET on Monday from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Both astronauts are retired Navy captains going to space for the third time. As the CFT crew, the astronauts will test out Starliner's capability to certify the spacecraft for future astronaut missions. As former Navy test pilots, both astronauts say it is an honor."I sort of have to pinch myself a little bit to understand we're actually going," Williams told reporters this week.Williams spent 322 days on the International Space Station.
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