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Boeing's first crewed space mission was delayed again due to a persistent helium leak.

SpaceX flew its first NASA astronauts to the space station four years sooner and $1.6 billion cheaper than Boeing.

The Starliner capsule will host two NASA astronauts headed for the International Space Station

The stage is set for some space history to be made tonight as two veteran NASA astronauts aim to launch in a spacecraft that has never flown with humans before. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will climb aboard Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner capsule and lift off atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 41 at 10:34 p.m. on the Crew ...

NASA, Boeing, and ULA leadership are all polling “go” in the launch readiness review Friday morning for the Boeing Starliner mission.

The first crewed test flight for Boeings Starliner is scheduled to launch just after 10:30 p.m. Monday ET.

Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner will have to wait at least another day for its first human spaceflight as teams scrubbed a Monday night launch attempt. With just over two hours on the countdown clock before a planned 10:34 p.m. Eastern time liftoff, an issue with an oxygen relief valve led to the call while NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were strapped into the spacecraft atop a ...

SpaceX flew its first NASA astronauts to the space station four years sooner and $1.6 billion cheaper than Boeing.

NASA and Boeing are working together to send the first astronauts to space on Starliner on May 6. Among the Mission Control support team is Kennedy Space Center's chief engineer.

The latest test flight comes after multiple delays in the Starliner program and increased scrutiny of Boeing for safety lapses in the production of its commercial aircraft.