LIVE: Boeing launches its first ever crew of humans into space
Watch Boeing Starliner's inaugural crewed flight, launching two Nasa astronauts to the International Space Station .It is only the sixth time Nasa astronauts have taken off in a new, never-before-crewed, spacecraft.The space capsule took off atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from the US Space Force's Cape Canaveral launch site.
On board Starliner are astronauts Butch Wilmore, 61, and Suni Williams, 58, who are headed to the ISS for a week-long stay.Technical difficulties The $1.5billion spacecraft was due to take off on its first crewed mission to the International Space Station on 7 May.PlayStation gamers have just hours to grab 92-rated masterpiece at 75% off
Starliner was created in collaboration with NASA’s Commercial Crew Programme, which is similar to its now-defunct Shuttle programme.The capsule can be reused up to 10 times. “For Nasa service missions to the International Space Station, it will carry up to four Nasa-sponsored crew members and time-critical scientific research,” Boeing said.However, the capsule suffered several problems on its first mission in December 2019, and only successfully met all flight goals in its second launch in May 2022.
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