Page 7 - Crew Flight Test News Today

Posted: May 14, 2024 8:42 pm ET | Last Updated: May 14, 2024 8:46 pm ET | Boeings Starliner Crew Flight Test will be delayed a few more days because of a helium leak in one of the spacecrafts Reaction Control System thrusters.

The first crewed flight for Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner will have to wait a little bit longer but is still targeting a May launch aboard a Decatur-built rocket.

The launch of astronauts on a Boeing spacecraft will mark a first for the company, but will also bring human spaceflight back to a rocket and launch site after more than 50 years.

Terry Renna/AP Boeing's Starliner capsule, sitting atop an Atlas V rocket, rolls onto the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral

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NASA astronauts will ride a United Launch Alliance Atlas V for the 1st time on May 6. Getting the long-running rocket ready for humans took thousands of checks.

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 ...

The historic first crewed launch of Boeings new Starliner astronaut taxi has been pushed to no earlier than Friday (May 10), due to an issue with the vehicles rocket ride.

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been suiting up in new spacesuits ahead of the first crewed Boeing Starliner test flight tonight.

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