The trip by Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams was expected to take 25 hours, with an arrival Thursday.
Boeing launched astronauts for the first time Wednesday , belatedly joining SpaceX as a second taxi service for NASA.
The trip by Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams was expected to take 25 hours, with an arrival Thursday. Crippled by bad software, Starliner's initial test flight in 2019 without a crew had to be repeated before NASA would let its astronauts strap in. A small helium leak in the spacecraft's propulsion system also caused delays, but remained extremely low and manageable.
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