Starliner’s first unmanned test flight in 2019 failed to reach the space station and Boeing had to repeat the launch
Both NASA test pilots the seat belts had just been tightened in the Boeing Starliner capsule when countdown was suspendedjust two hours before launch. Dillon Rice, an engineer with United Launch Alliance, said the problem revolved around an oxygen release valve in the upper stage of the company’s Atlas rocket.
At the moment There was no word on when the team would try again. send test pilots to the International Space Station, where they will spend a week. It was the latest setback for Boeing’s first space crew, which has waited for years due to problems with the capsule.
“In a situation like this, if we see some data signal that doesn’t look like anything we’ve seen before, then we’re simply not willing to take any risks with our most precious cargo,” Rice stated.
The first uncrewed Starliner test flight in 2019 failed to reach the space station and Boeing had to repeat the launch. The company later encountered problems with parachutes and duct tape.
The new one boeing wagon He was a few minutes later at the launch pad to pick up Butch Wilmore and Sui Williams from its ramp at the Station Cape Canaveral Space Force.
The NASA It hired Boeing and SpaceX a decade ago to ferry astronauts to and from the space station after the space shuttle program ended, paying the private companies billions of dollars. SpaceX has been in the orbital shuttle business since 2020.
The first uncrewed Starliner test flight in 2019 ended up in the wrong orbit and missed the space station, forcing Boeing to repeat the demonstration before it could take astronauts aboard. After additional checks last year, the company had to fix the capsule’s parachutes and get rid of more than a mile (a mile) of duct tape.
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