After pushing the planned launch of Boeing Starliner’s first flight toting actual humans into orbit multiple times in this month alone, the crewed test flight has been delayed once again, according to a NASA release. Tellingly, this time officials haven’t even set a new possible launch date although they did state that this...
After pushing the planned launch of Boeing Starliner ’s first flight toting actual humans into orbit multiple times in this month alone, the crewed test flight has been delayed once again, according to a NASA release.
“The team has been in meetings for two consecutive days, assessing flight rationale, system performance, and redundancy,” the federal space agency stated. “There is still forward work in these areas, and the next possible launch opportunity is still being discussed.” The flight has since been pushed back repeatedly, starting with the first attempted launch, on May 6. Williams and Wilmore were strapped into the capsule sitting atop an Atlas V rocket on a launchpad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida and two hours from liftoff when the launch was scrubbed due to a valve issue with the rocket, made by the United Launch Alliance, a Boeing-Lockheed Martin joint venture.
Soon enough, NASA announced the test flight wouldn’t take place before May 21, this time because of a helium leak traced back to a flange in a thruster on Starliner’s crew module. They were only pushing the date this time around to give engineers a chance to understand the leak and figure out a plan for flying the spacecraft as-is, according to that release.
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