Boeing's Starliner spacecraft is finally at the pad and on the eve of carrying astronauts. It's a debut that is imminent, yet feels bizarrely inconsequential.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Monday it has opened a new investigation into the Boeing 787 Dreamliner after the planemaker told the regulator last month it may not have completed required inspections.
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Boeing Co's new Starliner astronaut capsule was poised for a Monday night launch of its long-delayed inaugural crewed test flight to the International Space Station, two years after its first voyage without humans to the orbital laboratory. The gumdrop-shaped CST-100 Starliner with two astronauts aboard was due for liftoff at 10:34 p.m. (0234 GMT on Tuesday) from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carried atop an Atlas V rocket furnished by the Boeing-Lockheed Martin joint venture United Launch Alliance (ULA).