While behind schedule and $1B over budget, NASA and Boeing are hopeful today will be the day for Starliner to finally lift off with crew onboard. A previous launch attempt on May 6, 2024, was scrubbed due to a suspect oxygen relief valve on the Atlas V rocket’s Centaur second stage....
Despite the setbacks, NASA says Starliner is ready to fly humans. If it launches on schedule, the ship will dock at the station just before 1 a.m. ET on May 8. TopicsNASA Elisha Sauers Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives intoNASA's moon and Mars missions,...
One day after NASA’s safety advisory panel urged an independent review before launching Boeing’s Starliner commercial crew vehicle with astronauts aboard, the agency issued an assurance that it will launch only when ready. Crew safety is the highest priority and schedule adjustments will be made ...
The first Starliner crew is in quarantine ahead of their scheduled May 6 launch. The two NASA astronauts to fly aboard Boeing Starliner, Barry "Butch" Wilmore and pilot Suni Williams, entered standard pre-flight quarantine on Tuesday (April 22) at NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston...
With the first crewed test flight of the new Boeing Starliner spacecraft less than two weeks away, NASA has given the go-ahead for the launch.
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....
NASA and Boeing managers decided the leak was too small to pose a safety threat and the ship was cleared for launch. Once in orbit and on the way to the space station, however,four more helium leaks developedand the Starliner's flight computer took seven maneuvering jets offline when the ...
NASA在当地时间3月22日召开新闻发布会称,波音新飞船“星际快车”(CST-100 Starliner)终于准备好最早5月1日实施首次载人试飞,NASA宇航员巴里·威尔莫尔(Barry Wilmore)和苏妮·威廉姆斯(Suni Williams)将乘飞船前往国际空间站,在轨工作8天后返回美国西南部着陆区。
NASA’s Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) is targeting launch of the Starliner spacecraft on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at 1:20 p.m.EDTTuesday, August 3, from Space Launch Complex-41 on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Starliner is expected to ...
NASA has announced a new target date for the first crewed flight of Boeing Space’s Starliner spaceraft. The space agency said Wednesday that it’s now targeting no earlier no earlier than 6:16 p.m. ET on May 17 for the launch of the Atlas V rocket and Starliner spacecraft from the ...