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Last month United Launch Alliance was testing a version of the Centaur upper stage designed to fly on its new Vulcan rocket, but a hydrogen leak caused a massive fireball, the fallout of which has meant a delay to the rocket’s first launch from Cape Canaveral, according to ULA President and CEO Tory Bruno.

Boeing’s first launch of astronauts has been delayed again, this time until July.

On March 9, ULA rolled its first Vulcan Centaur rocket to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station for testing ahead of the vehicles debut flight.

Before summer, 14 more humans could launch from U.S. soil as SpaceX has three missions set to lift off from Kennedy Space Center on Crew Dragons while Boeing looks to send its CST-100 Starliner up to the International Space Station for the first time with people on board.

The rocket components arrived at Port Canaveral Saturday night.

Liftoff of the Starliner capsule with a pair of NASA test pilots is now scheduled for February, officials announced Thursday. They had hoped to launch it by year's end.

Liftoff of the Starliner capsule with a pair of NASA test pilots is now scheduled for February, officials announced Thursday. They had hoped to launch it by year's end.

United Launch Alliance orbited two satellites atop an Atlas V 541 rocket for the United States Space Force and Department of Defense.

Two astronauts have been assigned to the first crewed trip of NASA's Boeing Crew Flight Test (CFT) mission to the International Space Station (ISS), where they will live and work for about two weeks.

Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft will undock from the International Space Station Wednesday and later land in the New Mexico desert, completing the final chapter in the orbital test flight.