NASA announces new launch date for Boeing's Starliner astronaut-crewed mission after NASA announced that Boeing Starliner's first crewed mission will be launching on June 1 after several delays, the most recent being due to a small helium leak. ...
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying Boeing's Starliner sits at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., on May 7, 2024.Joe Raedle/Getty Images The Starliner is designed to carry a seven-person crew, but a...
Wilmore and Williams will remain quarantined in Houston as prelaunch operations progress. They will fly back to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida closer to the new launch date. The duo is the first to launch aboard Starliner to the space station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew...
NASA astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore, Mike Fincke, and Nicole Mann continue to train for CFT, the inaugural crewed flight of the Starliner spacecraft. After the completion of both test flights, NASA astronauts Sunita Williams,Josh Cassada and Jeanette Epps will launch on the Starliner-...
If the OFT-2 test mission stays on track and takes place in May next year, Starliner will launch on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida. To give the teams a decent chance of hitting that target date, NASA said it will use the service module originally...
All systems are "go" for a second attempt to launch Boeing's oft-delayed Starliner crew ship Saturday on a long-awaited test flight to the International Space Station, the capsule's first with astronauts aboard, NASA managers said Friday. ...
The return to Earth of Boeing's Starliner capsule is on indefinite hold pending results of new thruster tests and ongoing analysis of helium leaks that cropped up during the ship's rendezvous with the International Space Station, NASA announced Friday. But agency officials insisted Starliner ...
The Boeing Starliner spacecraft lands at White Sands Missile Range’s Space Harbor in New Mexico after a test flight, in May 2022. Bill Ingalls/NASA Today’s launch was a monumental moment for the two astronauts heading for space. But what goes up must come down. After Suni Williams ...
Boeing Starliner astronauts’ latest return date NASA said on Tuesday that it may bring Wilmore and Williams home a couple weeks sooner, however, after opting to change the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule it will use to launch the Crew-10 mission. The Crew Dragon Endurance will carry staff to the...
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft landed in a New Mexico desert late on Friday,months after its original departure date and without the two astronauts it carried when it launched in early June.The Nasa astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore should have flown the Starliner back to Earth in June...