Boeing Starliner's 1st astronaut mission delayed, no new launch date announced

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Boeing Starliner's 1st astronaut mission delayed, no new launch date announced
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Boeing's Crew Flight Test Starliner spacecraft is mated to its Atlas V rocket ahead of its first astronaut launch at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.will not lift off on Saturday as planned, which was the latest launch date following several delays in recent weeks."The team has been in meetings for two consecutive days, assessing flight rationale, system performance, and redundancy.

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams during the crew walkout ahead of a launch attempt for Boeing's Starliner on May 6, 2024. The launch was later delayed due to an issue with the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. Williams and Wilmore, both former U.S. Navy test pilots, are the astronauts on Crew Flight Test scheduled to fly Starliner's first mission with astronauts.

Starliner failed to reach the ISS during its first uncrewed test flight in 2019 due to a software glitch that stranded the spacecraft in the wrong orbit. A follow-up flight made it there safely in 2022 after addressing the dozens of issues, in addition to experiencing other delays in part due to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020.

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