Reuters
A United Starting Alliance Atlas V rocket sporting two astronauts boarded Boeing’s Starliner-1 Team Flying Take a look at (CFT), is proven upcoming the starting was once not on time for technical problems previous to a undertaking to the World Area Station, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US, on Might 6, 2024.
NASA and Boeing abeyance the starting of the primary crewed undertaking of Starliner spacecraft on Monday because of technical problems.
The spacecraft was once scheduled to starting on a United Starting Alliance Atlas V rocket at 10:34pm Japanese Day Monday (2:34am GMT Tuesday) from Area Starting Complicated-41 at Cape Canaveral Area Drive Station in the United States condition of Florida.
The flying check will lift NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the World Area Station.
The starting was once scrubbed as groups had been comparing an oxygen peace valve at the Centaur higher degree at the Atlas V rocket, consistent with NASA. The 2 astronauts have exited Starliner and can go back to workforce quarters.
This undertaking, dubbed the Team Flying Take a look at, may well be the general main milestone sooner than NASA deems Boeing’s spacecraft able for regimen operations as a part of the federal company’s Business Team Program.
