Science News Roundup: Space station mishap prompts NASA to postpone launch of Boeing Starliner; U.S. watchdog rejects Blue Origin protest over NASA lunar contract and more : vimarsana.com
Article Science News Roundup: Space station mishap prompts NASA to postpone launch of Boeing Starliner; U.S. watchdog rejects Blue Origin protest over NASA lunar contract and more The ISS was thrown off track on Thursday after the engines of the Russian Nauka, or 'science', research module roared into life about three hours after it had latched on. Space station mishap prompts NASA to postpone launch of Boeing Starliner NASA on Thursday postponed a planned launch of a Boeing CST-100 Starliner capsule to the International Space Station after the orbiting outpost was briefly thrown out of control by jet thrusters inadvertently activated on a newly docked Russian module, NASA said.