Boeing Starliner

ULA has resolved a ground support system problem that scotched a June 1 launch attempt of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft aboard an Atlas V rocket.

A second attempt to launch two astronauts on a shakedown cruise of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft was called off 3 min. 50 sec. before liftoff on June 1.

Starliner is due to spend at least eight days at the International Space Station for a shakedown .

NASA has cleared Boeing and United Launch Alliance (ULA) to proceed with a June 1 launch attempt of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft.

The issue was found as part of a wider assessment of the Starliner propulsion system.

NASA and Boeing are working toward a June 1 launch of the CST-100 Starliner Crew Flight Test.

Launch of a Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft on its first crewed flight has been postponed again to allow more time to review a helium leak issue.

The leak initially appeared during the countdown for launch of the Starliner Crew Flight Test on May 6.

The leak was noted during Starliner’s initial launch attempt on May 6.

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams will remain at Kennedy Space Center while ULA repairs their ride to space, the first Atlas V to launch crew.

The long-awaited flight was scrubbed to address an issue with an oxygen relief value in the upper stage of the spacecraft’s Atlas V launch vehicle.

It’s been a big year for United Launch Alliance, the Lockheed Martin- and Boeing-owned joint venture that has been remaking itself for the commercial space age.

The long-awaited crewed debut of Boeing’s Starliner caps off a 13-year effort to certify multiple commercial providers of low-Earth-orbit astronaut transport.

The three NASA Crew-8 astronauts and their Russian cosmonaut colleague undocked their SpaceX Dragon capsule from the ISS and redocked on May 2.

Launch is planned for 10:34 p.m. EDT on May 6 atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral.

SpaceX's resupply mission to the ISS, CRS-30, returned early April 30 with a parachute-assisted splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida.

The Dragon resupply mission undocking on April 28 from the ISS Harmony module's zenith docking port should enable a relocation of the Crew 8 Dragon capsule.

NASA and Boeing on April 25 completed the Flight Readiness Review (FRR) for the long-awaited CST-100 Starliner crewed flight test (CFT).

Boeing’s first crewed CST-100 Starliner capsule was rolled out to Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral SFS on April 16.

Boeing’s new leadership in Commercial Airplanes and at the top are likely just the beginning of major changes at the manufacturing giant.

The company is confident a spate of hardware issues and oversights are behind it.

NASA and Boeing have retargeted the planned launch date for the Starliner's crew flight test from May 1 to no earlier than May 6.

With Crewed Flight Test certification, Starliner will be in line for six missions to launch astronauts and return them from the ISS.

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Redesigning and testing part of the parachute system on the Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft will delay a long-awaited crew flight test (CFT) until March 2024 at the earliest.