NASA pushes back missions to the ISS to buy time for Starliner analysis

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Next SpaceX crew trip moves deep into September while engineers agonize over the Calamity Capsule

The saga of Boeing's delayed Starliner capsule continues: NASA has confirmed it pushed back the next SpaceX Crew Dragon mission to the International Space Station to give Starliner teams more time to work out how to bring the spacecraft back to Earth.

Furthermore, the Crew-9 mission will have to launch from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, since the Launch Complex 39A pad at Kennedy Space Center needs to be prepared for September's Falcon Heavy launch of NASA's Europa Clipper mission.

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