WATCH LIVE: Boeing to Launch NASA Astronauts Into Space for First Time
The first crewed test flight for Boeing's Starliner is scheduled to launch just after 10:30 p.m. Monday ET.
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The first crewed test flight for Boeing's 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.