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ULA’s Atlas V rocket and Boeing Space’s Starliner spacecraft on the launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA/ Joel Kowsky NASA has announced a new target date for the first crewed flight of Boeing Space’s Starliner spaceraft. The space agency said on 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 Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Recommended Videos The Starliner was supposed to launch on Monday, May 9, but an issue with a valve on the upper stage of United Launch Alliance’s rocket emerged just two hours before liftoff , prompting the flight to be scrubbed.
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams had just been strapped into their seats inside the spacecraft when news came through that the mission had been called off for the day. Related Starliner’s first crewed launch called off just two hours before liftoff Starliner astronauts arrive at launchpad for first crewed flight tonight NASA gives Starliner’s first crewed launch the go-ahead Teams from ULA have now rolled the Starliner and Atlas V rocket to an integration facility to replace the faulty valve on the rocket’s upper stage. Wilmore and Williams have returned to quarantine inside NASA facilities, where they’ll remain until next week’s launch attempt.
Following Monday’s scrub, NASA issued a statement offering more details about the valve problem. “The oscillating behavior .
