Boeing Starliner Continue Has A GIANT Problem! Delay Again...
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Boeing Starliner Continue Has A GIANT Problem! Delay Again...
Alas, the Boeing Starliner spacecraft appears to be plagued by a persistent curse, as it has yet again been delayed. Yes, once again! And this time, the problem lies not with Atlas V but with Starliner itself! What exactly happened here? Should NASA cancel this disaster? Find out everything in today's episode of Great SpaceX!
Boeing Starliner Continue Has A GIANT Problem! Delay Again...
Starliner had been scheduled to lift off this Friday (May 17) on Crew Flight Test, a mission that will send NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore to the International Space Station (ISS) for a roughly eightday stay. But that's no longer the plan. Teams detected a small helium leak in Starliner's service module. This means the first crew launch of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, running years behind schedule and more than $1.4 billion over budget, won't happen before next Tuesday, May 21, at 4:43 pm EDT.
Boeing Starliner Continue Has A GIANT Problem! Delay Again...
In fact, mission commander Barry “Butch” Wilmore and copilot Sunita Williams had hoped to take off on the Starliner’s first piloted flight last Monday. They were in the process of strapping in when the countdown was called off because of trouble with an oxygen pressure relief valve in the rocket’s Centaur upper stage.
Two days later, the Atlas 5 was hauled off the launch pad and moved back to ULA’s nearby Vertical Integration Facility where the suspect valve was replaced. Tests confirmed the rocket is good to go for another launch try.