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Astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore are the first to launch aboard Boeings Starliner on an Atlas V rocket on its maiden human test flight...
Starliner's debut crewed mission, a high-stakes test now planned for June 1, was derailed earlier this month by a small helium leak detected in its propulsion system hours before it was due to lift off from Florida..
Boeing and Nasa's probe of the helium leak led engineers to uncover an additional issue in Starliner's propulsion system that Nasa's commercial crew chief Steve Stich called a "design vulnerability."..
Saturday, June 1, from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida," Nasa has said.. Boeing is a longtime Nasa contractor that has built modules for the decades-old International Space Station but has never before flown humans into space, a feat that persistent struggles in its Starliner program have made elusive...
Starliner in 2019 failed an attempt to reach the ISS, returning to Earth roughly a week earlier than planned because of dozens of software, technical and management issues that reshaped Boeing's relationship with Nasa...
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