Boeing’s Starliner spacecraftlaunched on the morning of June 5, 2024, sending astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams into space. Following a delay of several years, this was thethird launch attempt made over the past monthafter issues with both the spacecraft and groun...
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 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 ...
The first crewed flight was supposed to launch on May 6, butjust a couple of hours before launch, engineers encountered an issue with the Atlas V rocket. In the following days, a helium leak was found on the Starliner, causing a further delay. Several other launch targets have come and g...
Launch date: May 19, 2022 Source: United States (US) Launch site: AIR FORCE EASTERN TEST RANGE (AFETR) Decay date: 2022-05-26 CST 100 STARLINER 2 (Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2) is a repeat of Boeing's failed first Orbital Flight Test (OFT-1) of its Starliner spacecraft. The ...
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-...
A new launch date had been set for May 25, but a small helium leak was discovered in the service module, which contains support systems and instruments for operating a spacecraft. Another launch set for June 2 was scrubbed minutes before it was due to begin "due to the computer ground la...
That date is only a launch schedule opportunity and “not necessarily an acknowledgement of readiness to conduct that flight test,” ASAP said, urging NASA to conduct an independent review perhaps through the NASA Engineering & Safety Center before committing to launch. ...
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...